{"id":16939,"date":"2017-11-16T17:38:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T17:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=16939"},"modified":"2017-11-19T17:40:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T17:40:33","slug":"life-island-times-drinking-with-a-duval-street-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-drinking-with-a-duval-street-satan\/","title":{"rendered":"Life & Island Times: Drinking with a Duval Street Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author’s note:<\/strong> This year’s edition of Key West’s infamous Fantasy Fest, a 10 day long party, passed while W and I were on the left coast. These are the sole coherent phrases that recall a distant foggy memory of one such Fantasy Fest night.<\/p>\n

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I was at the Green Parrot late one October Saturday night, you’ll never guess who walked in
\nA tourist, perhaps, dressed in red satin like the Devil, acting like the master of sin
\nHe blared at me, “I’ll drink you off your stool”
\nI said, “Thinking about out-drinking a local will make you the fool”<\/p>\n

Thus I became drunker than a Duval Street Satan in satin
\nHe was much worse off, despite all his braggin’
\nLater I found this prince of darkness prone on the sidewalk
\nPuking in the gutter and unable to talk
\nAnd he wasn’t even through shot 13
\nCause on his fourth glass of house tequilla
\nHe started spewing and evacuating condemned souls
\nAnd that was before the bartender opened up the Jim Beam<\/p>\n

Maybe this satin Satan thought he’d get my soul, if he were to win
\nSo a bit after midnight I asked, “What do I get, when you’re forced to give in?”
\nHe weakly said to me, “If you out-drink me, I’ll be surprised,
\nbut if you do, you can name your own prize.”<\/p>\n

It wasn’t quite one, when I again found this ersatz prince of doom
\nPassed out on the floor of the Parrot’s mens room
\nI told him, “It might be hard to get me my prize with your head so unclear,
\nThe night is young, I know what I want — GET ME SOME DRAFT BEER!”<\/p>\n

Good times were rolling, outdrinking a red satin Satan
\nAt the Parrot’s back bar singing the blues with the band again
\nThe whiskey kept flowing, the smiles did too
\nI felt pretty good, until I drank them last few<\/p>\n

Oh, Lord, God in Heaven, I felt rather tipsy
\nI shouldn’t have drunk so damn much whiskey
\nNor chugged so much beer, nor slammed so much gin
\nIs this what the priest meant by the “wages of sin”<\/p>\n

Oh, Lord, God in Heaven, I felt rather tipsy
\nI shouldn’t have drunk so damn much whiskey
\nNor chugged so much beer, nor slammed so much gin
\nIs this what the priest meant by the “wages of sin”<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2017 From My Isle Seat\/H. Jenkins
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Author’s note: This year’s edition of Key West’s infamous Fantasy Fest, a 10 day long party, passed while W and I were on the left coast. These are the sole coherent phrases that recall a distant foggy memory of one such Fantasy Fest night. I was at the Green Parrot late one October Saturday night, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16940,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939\/revisions\/16940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}