i am new orleans

mississippi river bottom brown.
wild eyes, wild hair, carnival all day and night.
spontaneous sahajiya - master the form, freestyle jazz.
sensuously fluid shakti, the water keeps rising.
surviving on illusion, swirling below sea level, the water keeps rising.
balancing the fire.
benevolent shiva, storm god, shambo, chambeaux.
mate with thy shambavi, chambavi.
hurricane.
raging through.
electric wind, ocean in the sky.
let loose upon the land.
levee breaks.
ten feet under.
dancing in the current.
pollution cascades through, washing clean.
left naked, humbled, real, alive.
brown scar, high water mark.
some see destruction, some see god.
she lives to tell the tale.
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