Big Easy in Me

Just finished eating two day old

okra gumbo (after the seasonings have settled)

so good it, takes me back to

St. Charles Avenue streetcar rides…

Magazine St., to the end of the line

to Audubon Park, on the Riverfront

…crawfish boils with WYLD

weekends…picnics and holding hands

on riverboat cruises and stolen kisses

beneath broad magnolias and

a sweeping elm’s shady cool…

while families enjoyed the day

Good gumbo can cause nostalgia when

…you’re homesick and longing

for back in the days when

life was the way we lived

…70’s house parties and

slow-dragging under a black bulb

New Orleans summer times and

falling in love with a pretty girl

good fun, good food…and times

The late night walks in the Quarter

…Canal St., lit up like Vegas or

“second-line Sundays” on Claiborne Avenue

and buck-jumpin with…

Rebirth Brass Band and people yellin out

“Le sez le bon temps roulette!”

(Let the good times roll!)…happy

…free and how we love…living

There’s no place

…like where I’m from*      

Jon` B. Crenshaw

Big Easy in Me

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