Ivan

I don't know how many feet below sea level New Orleans is but I hear it's going to flood
and all that shit
that runs down the mississippi
and gets dropped on their doorstep is gon'
find its way back home

they've got all these above ground tombs
on the swamp
cuz when it rains too much
anything that you tried to bury gets drug up in the water

so they stack em
shelf like

shelf

life

(pun)

and when the spooky kids
watch too much media
read too much
listen too much
they take big hammers
and bring all sorts of unrest
to the tired bones
behind
cement placards
and take little
forgetmenots
to Anne and Trent

so with two feet of water
standing
in the show me your tit
city
they're gonna be
using femurs like oars
as they steal
every body

any body-

a witch doctor
southern cop
cajun mob
done tried to hide
down the brine

an get rode like gondolas
in and out of that ole gothic church
offa frenchmen and decaturs
where the crusts junkies
and runaways
trade somas and
outpunk each other

building dams
like tattooed beavers
paw wrapped around neon
plastic
souvenir glasses
of the official drink of New Orleans
26 ounces of fruit punch
and Southern Comfort
blended with crushed ice

ironically
titled
the Hurricane