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Deliver Me From Living In Florida

Deliver Me From Living in Florida By Elton Camp I can’t see how it can be any fun To live exposed to the broiling sun And I most certainly wouldn’t care To have sand tracked about everywhere How could any Florida resident smile When drinking water yellow and vile And if you should buy a house today Tomorrow sell it for half what you pay And almost all of the people you see Are old with skin wrinkled as can be In a place I’d certainly hate to stay Where a hurricane can blow away And I wouldn’t really enjoy living at all Where, from the toilet, a gator can crawl

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Ilene Bauer

Date: 5/28/2012 9:54:00 AM

even though i have family living in florida, i totally agree with what you've written here (and done so in a very delightful way!).

Elton Camp
Date: 5/28/2012 10:01:00 AM

We have relatives living in Venice, Florida. That's the best part of Florida to me, but I still prefer North Alabama even with our tornadoes. We live 15 miles from the path of the horrid EF 5 that leveled nearby towns, but it left us untouched except for insulation falling into our front yard. Elton

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 5/27/2012 3:23:00 PM

:) Well done smiling poem Elton. - oxox Anne-Lise

Elton Camp
Date: 5/27/2012 3:43:00 PM

Hello Anne Lise, Thanks for reading. Elton

Toquyen Harrell

Date: 5/27/2012 2:21:00 PM

"Lol, very funny! Love that sun and sand Elton. Toquyen"

Elton Camp
Date: 5/27/2012 3:45:00 PM

We have relatives in South Florida. Quite beautiful place. Elton