40 Below is 40 Below

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Global warming comes in fits and starts The thermometer still bangs away at the bottom sometimes But everything is mostly easier these days The Americans have the taken the U out of fourty and I take the I out whenever I can Go down to Texas where if bullshit was white they’d be able to ski and tell tall tales of my youth that are truth Of breaking ice for cattle at 50 below of shaving a beard too early one year and beard-shaped frozen blisters rising They listen and smile and welcome me in like some long lost kin

40º below zero is where the Fahrenheit and Celsius temperature scales meet.

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