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Jazz Night

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The Big Easy sways
Left to right
Left to right
In flourish of refined
Decadence
Left to right
Left to right
Along the Mississippi's might

Light flicking like flame
As bodies pass by the panes
Raucous bedlam
To the tune of bourbon

Play on, play on
Man, play on
Dance madam, dance
To that whiskey blues
Dance madam, dance
Both of you take a bow
In the light of the rum-fired sky

Left to right
New Orleans swings
By the shores of lake Ponchatrain
She writhes

Like the madam in the window
To the golden sheen, whiskey blues
The slow moon shines
As the songs lie
Like the sun at high noon
A French Quarter tune
Below that rum-fired sky
Drifting, to the pines
Of that whiskey blues
First try at a Langston Huges-esque poem. Trying a little beat poetry.
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