Fleshing
out the purple-haired marvels of gaunt Mexican wrestling masks
Amongst
the gruff tow-truck drivers of Decatur
Cleaning
the way for Krewe Du Vieux
Flashing
yellows kneel on the corner of Governor Nichols in front of Angeli’s
Rickshaw
trike rolls passenger-less
Rollick
in the filling balconies
Nawlinz
Where yat cab evacuating honk of the pre-traffic
EMS
paramedics in an ASAP black and gold tiny hero
Porkpie
hats and skull shirts
Viking
helmets pierce the draining sunlight as six thirty p.m. approaches
Beginning
of the beginning of the satirical walk-walk parade of Mardi Gras
Bicycles
chained to a lamp post, I am seated in a sea with my notebook
Girl
guitarist in red and white checkered yoga pants strums
Bodies
pace as twenty-something frat-boys yell at NOPD po-po
Tiger-striped
trench coat in a cowboy hat
S.U.V.
with 25 inch rims blaring Phil Anselmo’s Walk
Smoked
out Cheech-van with blackened windows pasted peace stickers
City
tow-truck with the authority of a vulture
Minivan
from Minnesota passenger seat marmish blonde with fingers over her lips
Vaping
genderless dandelion tokes
Pink
feather headdress in pink leggings and a gray top chugs NOLA blonde ale
Ignatius-Reilly
mustache king pedals a bike in camouflage
Hipster
in black eyeglasses paces a stereotype almost too trite to write
Plastic
sword bearing Texan bachelor party-attendee sits next to me on the curb
Asks,
“What time this gets started? Somebody told me they throw dildos.”
Rainbow
Brite in drag bellows an, “Arrggh therrr!”
Ronald-McDonald
haircut septuagenarian mama slowly alone in refined bewilderment
Gutter-punk
totes a broom handle with a rope tied to a two foot wide tub
Like
a twenty-something Huck Finn a few blocks from the Missisip
Guitarist
in blue flowered skirt and a trucker hat unloads a wooden stool,
Two
dogs, two guitar cases from a navy Ford pick up
Glistening
pancake makeup painted-on mask with a lion’s tail
A
Jew-fro holding a plastic cup draft beer skateboards
Dragging
sight from left to right monitoring the fill-in
White
feathered cowboy hat in blue and red sequined jacket
Two
black NOPD officers whoop whoop da sound of the police
A
NORMI: National Organization of Remediators and Mold Inspectors pickup follows
Cheers
from the balcony fratboys in beads
Blonde
dreadlocks in need of a shower leashed to a Catahoula
Grandma
smacking gum in passenger seat of a Lincoln
Handle
bars high to a silver disco-suit with a porn-stash smoking a cigar
Chicago
Bears Urlacher jersey
Quasimodo
no-neck lurching in flannel
Silver-haired
Euro’s holding a hotel-lobby map in tight-shaved German locks
Bachelor
party guy’s friend has finger-less skeleton gloves, fedora with blinking
penises
Chant
of “USA, USA” storms for fifteen seconds
Red,
white, black, and yellow squared clown man in a green beard
Stands
as the bear to his yellow licked partner with a rubber-chicken shafted parasol
Shoes
have bulges near the toes, sparkling silver straps across laces
Gray-haired
tobacco veteran paces Gandolf-like with a carved wooden cane
Domestic
vendor rolls a mobile digital picture-printing cart
Parks
next to my squatted curbside escritoire
Pulls
out a camera to start shopping photographs
“Watch
out butterfly!” is yelled to a roller skating hatched caterpillar in glitter
wings
Two
African angels float together holding hands
Fuchsia
wigged pig tails in an Acura
Gray
pants in splattered house-paint forms a prism of finger prints
Herd
of tall men in non-costumes looks too sober for the pussy they will hunt later
Two
Harley Davidsons blare Beyoncé in club-leather jackets on matching maroon
“Amy,
Amy, Heh!”
Green
suspender cigar yells, “Eric, Eric, That is where everybody is though..”
Wheelchair
smokes a cigarette in a black malt liquor bike helmet
Mouthing
red-faced to a too-nice Fugazi shirt thirty-something
Holding
her saggy-tit Golden Retriever’s leash
Wheels
grunts, “Go, Go, eh, go yuh,” as canine starts to bark
“Keep
a helmet on,” chimes from the bachelor party,
The
besotted rolls
Sailor
captain hat asks to have the entrepreneur take his picture
With
trench coat princess in golden buttons and a Gucci scarf
Air
is colder, thinking about pulling an Abita Purple Haze can from my backpack
Might
need to piss, I don’t want to have to piss in this
It
is all too beautiful
Bicycle
rolls lined with blue stream of lights across the frame
Kabuki
full-face paint in white girl dreads on a cell phone
A
double-beer can hat in front of Fiorella’s Café with six-feet of bodies
The
first under-ten minor in an hour passes as the stench of urine wafts
My
lips begin to shiver over the Bukowski “Love is a Dog from Hell” book
I
am using to balance my notebook
Wearing
my, “Only New Orleans is real. The rest is done with mirrors.” T-shirt
My
brother gave me, he’s doing a show at One-Eyed Jacks tonight
Think
I’ve been around too many people already today, not sure if I can muster
Camera
man rolls away his cart from the open trash bag next to my lamp post
Hear
a walking drum beat and a horn like grasshopper leg rubs of the French Quarter
Superman
socks with little calf-capes in an America shirt and matching head band
Pull
my hood up as the breeze rises
Burger-King
crown in full golden-applied glitter adorns a grandmother’s cranium
Gutter-punks
in bed-roll backpacks, leather boots past scuffing, water-flask and a banjo
Vampire
couple crosses in front of a Brother mouthing that too-loud volume
Of
seeing too-many tourists snapping cellphone pics
I
think I might be the only seated human in several football fields of street
Most
seemed paired with either alcohol or a conversationalist’s balancing weight
Puppy
dog pajamas blue mask orange stocking cap from Utah
Six-foot
five Panda in flowing red cape with a Superman triangle on his chest
“USA,
USA, USA” chant versus “CAN-A-DA” rages in the corner
“Shut-up
Canada” ends the tussle in a whimper with a Coors light can
Here
it comes a purple gorilla on a tricycle with mobile E.D.M.
My
legs are starting to cramp
Fawkes
mask in a Pat O’Brien’s hat
Don’t
tread on Me flag waves, “USA, USA” returns
From
steampunk Hermes in a wing-eared cowl with ear flaps
Brown
goggles with black rims holding a spear
Green
afro puffs in sprinkle glitter eye shadow sounds
Krewe
Du Vieux is arriving with a Bamboula rhythm, stand, close the pages
Except
for floats of note
Krewe
Du Vieux Begs for Change
Kama
Sutra Twister with Kali sodomizing a dog-male
Dick-starter
campaign
Seeds
of Decline
Dr.
Aiken’s GMO organisms with bulbous testicles filled appendages
Spermatozoa
on hand held poles that Joe said looked like Snork heads
Hobo
Sex
Penetrate
Cuba
Ass
Extinction
Common
Whore Curriculum
Common
Hard Core featuring the Simpsons and McDonough 69
Broke
from Change on the national debt
Freak-show
American Whore Story
50
States of Gay with a rainbow map of U.S. and a carousel of Supreme Court
Justices
Happy
Mardi Gras 2015
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