All Over the Place

“The bright blessed day,the dark sacred night”*


Former New Orleans guy could never listen to
Louis Armstrong’s Do You Know What it Means
To Miss New Orleans? without a lump in his throat.

Now,crossing airport concourses,he sobs hearing it
while multitudinous TVs play,soundlessly,this

hobbyhorse war. “Rebuilding” of that
AMERICAN city is a moral disgrace.
Racial,probably. Well,Louisiana

people‘ll hafta handle their own shit down
there for now,but the rest of us,to put it

in most genteel terms,must,MUST
THROW THE BUMS OUT!

*from It’s a Wonderful World,another Armstrong song.