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Tourist Prices
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Written as a lament for my friends among the fishermen of Windward on Carriacou Island

I go to town to buy a little rum But the price am way too high. I thinking it be tourist season; That be the reason why. "Where the rum?" Old Bald Guy axed me When I get back to home. I tell he it tourist season Jack Iron needin' a bank loan. I got no tourist dollars in my pocket. I work a boat; most times catch some fish. Can't pay no tourist prices Cause I ain't no tourist rich. Now that they shut down the smuggling man It harder to get by. They shut down my friend the smuggling man And this village as good as dry. ��

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Reviewed by Regis Auffray

Reviewed on January 21, 2012

You have a way of recreating and sharing the experience and the ambiance of the place and the situation very effectively through your verses, Ed. Thank you. Love and peace,

Regis

Reviewed by Morgan McFinn

Reviewed on November 27, 2011

Ed,

I like this poem. You got the patois down. I'm going to stop complaining about being overcharged in Southeast Asia simply because I'm a foreigner...well, I'll stop for a while, anyway.

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