Thursday, April 25, 2019

April 25th - Statue at Lee Circle

Six of Hearts - Statue at Lee Circle

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Maybe

Drunk on the new
Drunk off a fifth of whisky
I sang in the streets 
Convinced I had found my twin
Convinced I was in love
With the smell of magnolia
With the near-morning dew
I galloped the streets smiling
Like some conquering northern general
Riding by the sad bronze face of
Robert E. Lee - a statue 
Staring into the past forever while
I sang in the sunrise streets
Of a new New Orleans

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