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N'Awlins | Poem

 
N’Awlins

 brazen hussy of a city

 onliest diamond

 on that stringy Route 10    necklace 

 black drum tattoo  adornin’

 soft lily-white 

 underbelly Dixie

 cloacal end of Middle America

 drunk with music

 revealed in masque

 wise in the science  of magic

 and callin’ my name

- Ken Peters


 

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