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      March 15, 2015How Florida Lost Its EdgeDamian Caudill

      In department emails
      we called it baptism by volume.
      How watered-down we already were.
      Even then,
      the state hired private contractors
      to scrub our hard-drives
      of submersibles, to cut any sentence
      that invoked an irritable tide.
      Sure,
      these were the come-to-Jesus days
      in Miami, but that winter
      Tallahassee had caught itself
      a sniff of bewildered snow.
      Nix all of the literature
      on immersion, said our land-
      locked Governor.
      And of course,
      those of us with pensions did.

      Damian Caudill

      “Earlier this week a curious set of allegations came to light about the specific ways in which Florida’s Republican governor, Rick Scott, has chosen to micro-manage the state’s Department of Environmental Protection’s language on climate change. Namely, that the terms ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming’ should not be used at all in any official state communications, emails or reports. The unwritten policy reeks of paranoia, so I thought it was only in good faith that I take things a step further by pushing that uneasiness to the surface of a poem written from the perspective of someone on the inside of the state capitol’s PR machine.”

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