The only honest way to drink anything in Key West is slowly.

The rooster on the corner crowed at nothing in particular. Several times.

Iced hibiscus is what you order in Key West when you have decided, for one morning, that you are not going to order rum. The color is the color of a sunset that has been negotiated. It tastes the way a sunset would, if you could.

By eleven the bars would be loud. By ten-twenty they were still pretending. I sat on a porch and pretended with them.

Drink Iced hibiscus

Place a porch on Duval, before the noise started

Cost $5