Off-the-Grid Girl-Lorraine Feather

[ti:Off-the-Grid Girl] [ar:Lorraine Feather] [al:Tales of the Unusual] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Off-the-Grid Girl - Lorraine Feather [00:12.62]He packed his bags in Bellingham [00:14.36] [00:15.66]Took the water taxi to where I am [00:18.92]Wed lie by the brook; his yellow dog [00:21.67]Chasing butterflies while I wrote my blog [00:25.48]It warned the outside world to stay away [00:29.91]To stay away [00:37.61]He would never pass the deep dark winter here [00:44.37]He made that clear [00:53.85] [01:08.15]Weve got these rats as big as cats [01:12.33]Slugs as long as your arm [01:16.13]A nasty nest of rattlesnakes [01:20.78]Down by the onion farm [01:24.43]We brought them in to eat the rats [01:28.80]Which as I stated are big as cats [01:33.11]All they did was multiply and grow [01:40.74]Its a very scary place to be [01:48.36]Unless youre an off-the-grid girl [01:55.98] [01:57.04]Like me [02:06.05]Forget about the ferry route; [02:10.05]It wont be dropping you here [02:14.17]Forget those touched-up listings [02:18.05]On the walls of Windermere [02:22.42]Or Coldwell Banker or John L Scott [02:26.68]One barren plot is all weve got [02:31.80]Extended stays are scarcely apropos [02:38.41]Though theres a cabin in the shadow of the penitentiary [02:46.40]Just right for an off-the-grid girl [02:55.45]Like me [03:04.61] [03:41.88]Its curtains for our aquifer [03:45.43]Salt pours from every tap [03:49.51]Not much can grow but nettles [03:53.50]And theyll sting you in a snap [03:57.32]But if youre coming anyhow [04:01.78]Get all your vaccinations now [04:07.57]Ill tell you something [04:09.26](Keep it on the down-low ): [04:13.83]Theres a nasty pox for which theres no immunity [04:21.57]Unless youre an off-the-grid girl [04:30.92]Like me [04:39.48]Ive kept his books beside the bed [04:47.40]Ive let him stay inside my head [04:56.98] [05:04.15]Hed walk by the table where I sold [05:08.29]The beets of purple the plums of gold [05:20.64]I guessed a Harvard cap and gown [05:24.57]I knew he played his money down