The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-06
FOOLS GOLD OF PARADISE
lRx cENE nALrMAN MrLLERl

tBY GENE MAILMAN MILLER)
Many thousand poor gulibes from hearhsides of ease
BY the glowing discourses and photos so fair
Of the glamorous beauties and sunshny air.
But Of every days fog and every nights chill
Where gas heated shelter warns one but ILL.,
TO warn man, bird or even poor beast
Never word ever reaches the East
The fraited "sunks" delights are all shipped away
The ocean is full of all kinds of fine fish,
But it's quite beyond hope to find good dish
The flowers are pretty, but lack smell,
What vegetable ones eating, from tastes hard to tell
downtown. and Dame Natures call sudden came,
Locked toilets of all buildings much despsed fame
The street cars are quite odd--wide open end
The seats narrow, for space one must fend
But printed and sold day before due
The people are funny and manners quite lack
The fsned hospitality of Odd West,
Is something with which L. A. is not blest
Cold old New Workers will give you hand
But not a smile or treat" in Los Angeles land;
FRS. question asked is-"ow much money you bring?
A boatswan ship pipes" the guest from the shore,
But the cake and bread toos hi to door
The "acre ranch" egg just whistles his way,
Like all OF the peddlers, who call day by day
The mlkman he ianges the junkman he gongs,
The Japs sell their fruit, the Chinese join tongs
The housewife to market goes only for meat
The rest of her shopping takes place on the street
Ice cream mans bells tinkle each night as before,
Rtit catch him can't as he whrls by your Door"
The fleas galy nip when you rest in the park
The birds rarely sing, much as your ears bark
IN home. theater, street, Stacks,
Many time do you wish for pox OF sharp tacks
W,ether streamline batteshp structure their beams,
They plust always Stacks just shorts SO 1t seems
, Polce.cars and ambuances constantly race,
Pewildering the stranger amazed at the pace
Crime must be rampant, and murders not few
If measured by noise and the hullabaloo
The sirens they screech and rack one in dreams
Until to Senses it truly seems,
That all of the reople both the sick and the well,
Are being quick srened, right straight into He'll
Car drivers are madmen throughout the whole place,
Nothing all year bat an Indianapolis
Of religion and cults there is everymans plan
From Edenc fair nudists, where mans troubles began.
The mountains barren, cold and austere,
When California marooned, You wish Florida near
The desert in summer is two feet above He'll,
In winter, at night you yearn for it well.
When rain deluged mountains fill arroyos with flood
There's wild scramble for life ganst rushing and
Man builds walls dikes and dams, the waters to stay,
But when Nature rampages, none stand in her way.
Then the earth's tremors with warning SO grave
They shake house and Dishes and shiver the brave.
The bed it doth shmmy the windows break;
Once again all is quiet-"Its only quake!"
But men can't sit idle and wonder 'iust when?";
Life must go on, and it's not in mems ken,
To time giant forces, far rockbound below
That crash down the buildings and put on real show
The land is 50 dry that f.r water to drink,
The cost was stupendors but like w. p A,
Wiv bother Los Angeleans-let the Fasteners pay!
They had mountains and deserts end acres of sand,
But no water all whore steamship might land
I'VE must be a seaport, though the ocean it lay,
Thirty miles westward where beach beauties play.
So Uncle Sans Congress was called on to say,
That for L. AS great harber. the country must pay
All of this tale proves what Kpling said neat
That East is not West and the twain shall not meet
There are cure-as for everything man can invent
Gyps, fakirs dreaners on fortune all bent
Il you want to be happy and with home town content
Take in California and learn what friends meant.
So my friends the Northand when King Winter doth come
Heed not siren praises, pray do not succumb
Head South where kind nature true paradise made,
Whrned by the Gulf Stream-ihe State Everslade".
Wien icicles bloom and the il grows deep
Drippy arrive, and cold chilis Ger you creep
To the land of real sunshine. of seashore and lake.
Pack your kit tag it South" mistake will make.
South Shore Drive,