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| Tampa is also the home of the rejuvenated [[AA]] and the second series [[Reticent 27]]. | Tampa is also the home of the rejuvenated [[AA]] and the second series [[Reticent 27]]. | ||
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| + | == About == | ||
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| + | THE SOUTH | ||
| + | I. Tampa | ||
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| + | The train has just stopped | ||
| + | Just two passengers get off on this broiling end-of-summer morning | ||
| + | Both are dressed in khaki suits and pith helmets | ||
| + | Both are followed by a black servant who carries the baggage | ||
| + | Both glance absentmindedly at the distant houses that are too white at | ||
| + | the sky that is too blue | ||
| + | You see the wind raising swirls of dust and flies pestering the two mules | ||
| + | harnessed to the only coach | ||
| + | The driver is asleep his mouth open | ||
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| + | from Kodak (Documentaire), 1924 by Blaise Cendrars (trans. Ron Padgett) | ||
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Ladled delicately across the belly of Florida, Tampa is quite possibly America's seediest city; the home of Death Metal, famous for it's crowd of sullen Goths, bizarre ritual murders and the almost absurd proliferation of bars on Nebraska Ave. It is also the home of Macdill Air Force Base, itself the home of the U.S. Central Command, the brain-trust which directs the ongoing wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Oceania.
Home of the Harbor Club, the riverside bar where Bending Denim was composed and the Mom Jokes show held.
Birthplace of Steven Adkins. One-time residence of Adkins, Tim Wilson, Krystine Monitzer, Michael Baldwin and Kevin Statham.
Tampa is also the home of the rejuvenated AA and the second series Reticent 27.
About
THE SOUTH I. Tampa
The train has just stopped Just two passengers get off on this broiling end-of-summer morning Both are dressed in khaki suits and pith helmets Both are followed by a black servant who carries the baggage Both glance absentmindedly at the distant houses that are too white at
the sky that is too blue
You see the wind raising swirls of dust and flies pestering the two mules
harnessed to the only coach
The driver is asleep his mouth open
from Kodak (Documentaire), 1924 by Blaise Cendrars (trans. Ron Padgett)
