Article: In Livingston Parish, Dreaming of Li Po.(Poem)

 
In Livingston Parish, Dreaming of Li Po 
 
   Li Po, this is your invite to the Prop Stop, 
   a honky-tonk unreachable except by boat 
   where we'd tether to a buoy and then, barefoot 
   or in flip-flops, tightrope across a rug of skiffs, 
   two weekenders not looking for trouble 
   but ready to battle any slurs the hicks unleash. 
   I keep samurai toothpicks and wine on hand, 
   though little news and nothing but wild company 
   brave the drawbridge to visit this distant post-- 
   only a den of armadillos and dime-sized frogs 
   that answer to your moon. Once a man ...

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