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Question: Do you want to go back to The Big Easy!?
I Can’t Go Home

Downtown
Canal Street
Backbeat to the rhythm
And blues
Tell you where you got them shoes
On your feet man
Bourbon Street man
Take a seat man
For the greatest show on Earth
Parading to the sounds of
Gunshots ringing
Out of time
Second in line
For last place
Try to face
The music that plays
In my head
Dirge for the dead
I quit trying
Satchmo’s soul crying
400 dying for years
As tears flood the city
That’s rotten
From the Corps
Forgotten once more
To care

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
The downfall of Nawlins was that no one 'believed' in that storm!. Lived there for ten years in the 70's!.!.!.only heard laughter!.!.!.!.

Your bitterness is quite complete here!.!.!.amazing poem of disclosure!.!.!.and yet, you bring the city's heart here for us to see!.!.!.amazing!Www@QuestionHome@Com

I found your poem really moving!. Yes, I want to go back to the Big Easy!. I've only been there once, and in fact it was my first time in the US!. I absolutely adored it!. People were extremely friendly (especially when they knew you were French!.!.!.) and the food was simply delicious!. For me, it was at once total exoticism, and the sort of place where you immediately feel at home!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Many moons have passed by since my last visit!.!.!. I remember a funeral,, jazz sounds blown by melodic breezes, people celebrating life!.!.!. and death!.!.!. cajuns speaking a language I understood but could not duplicate, poetry flowing naturally with every word they spoke!.!.!. sex was erotic, not pornographic!.!.!. and Kathleen, my lover, who drove down from Alexandria!.!.!. no reason to go back, she's no longer there!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I have friends who have left there
And one who's returned
They all were bereft there
As the cruel waters churned!.

I have been there but once
In joy, pre-catastrophe
And feel what you've suffered
From that great tragedy!.

Bless you all!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'm almost afraid to go back, but I know I'll have to someday!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Have not been there in years!.!.!.
Believe if I went, I'd be flooded
in tears!.Www@QuestionHome@Com