Crawdads.<\/p>\n
Nawlins.<\/p>\n
Crawdads in Nawlins.<\/p>\n
‘No one even says that here,” she says<\/p>\n
having been here many times<\/p>\n
dancing along the French Quarter<\/p>\n
eating red beans and rice<\/p>\n
coming in and going out on the Ponchartrain<\/p>\n
‘You sound like another tourist,’ she wails<\/p>\n
while we are in Nawlins<\/p>\n
and I’m squeezing through the crowds<\/p>\n
her hand in mine<\/p>\n
‘A target, people will hurt us’<\/p>\n
they might<\/p>\n
they might hurt us in Nawlins<\/p>\n
but I am inclined to believe<\/p>\n
as the waitress puts down a high pile of crawfish<\/p>\n
that I rip apart with poor technique<\/p>\n
to her side-eye from the corner<\/p>\n
while my girlfriend eats a po’ boy<\/p>\n
backed up from the table<\/p>\n
because the juice is going everywhere<\/p>\n
that they won’t hurt us<\/p>\n
they won’t hurt us in Nawlins.<\/p>\n
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