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Florida is a Wonderland. What’s up might indeed be down, and I wouldn’t look twice if a Rabbit (or a mouse) clad in knickers and a pocket watch crossed my path. There’s also a palpable sense that when we humans are gone, the flora and fauna there will take over, and quickly. But the wildness feels both barely-contained and hemmed in by industry, development, strip malls and tract housing. It seems that most everyone in Florida is from somewhere else… people whose roots spread wide and shallow in the sand.

(Full disclosure: I live in a place where I’m not from. And we met some amazing multi-generational Floridians on our trip. And we had a wonderful time there.)

The sand is full of stories, most of which I don’t know how to read. The shells are different from their Cape Cod relatives: thick and white with astonishing glints of purple and fuschia. We found 21 petrified sharks’ teeth on the Manasota Key beach in a couple of hours’ time (see the pics page). All the while, a great blue heron sat a few yards away from us for an hour and more.

To this unscientific observer, the water feels and smells different… green-blue and rich in minerals, but not as rich in… life. The Gulf of Mexico and all of it’s industrial and oil-laden implications is not far away as the current goes. This year has seen an inexplicable die-off of manatees, dolphins and pelicans in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon.

None of us is responsible. All of us are responsible.

I wrote this song because Florida reminds me of me. Full of irreconcilable juxtapositions. And unintentionally growing ideas and habits I’d rather not examine. Please.

-CK

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Where do lies grow?
In whose garden?
Couldn’t be mine.

In the un(in)tended garden...
How could I know?

These vines clamor and climb
with flowers bright as blight.

The blue-green water holds its tongue
but secrets leak out on the shore.

A billion tears will drown this Alice,
and a million years will turn her teeth to stone.

How could I know?
Couldn’t be mine.

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from Rabbit Rabbit Radio, Vol. 2 - Swallow Me Whole, released July 8, 2014
Carla Kihlstedt - voice
Matthias Bossi - programming Jon Evans - guitar, bass
Words and music by Carla Kihlstedt
Recorded by CK & MB at KihlBossi Studios, Falmouth, MA
Mixed by Jon Evans at Brick Hill, Orleans, MA
Published by Broca’s Fold, ASCAP

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Rabbit Rabbit Radio Falmouth, Massachusetts

Rabbit Rabbit Radio is the song-spinning duo of Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi. Collectively, they are founding members of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat, 2 Foot Yard, Causing a Tiger, The Book of Knots, and Fred Frith’s Cosa Brava.

Drawing on their love of both art & folk song, industrial & improvised music and heart-wrenching balladry, their songs are raw, beautiful, sparse and rich. ... more

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