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Contents: River of Voices 3; Louisiana 4; A Brief History of My Life 6; The Creeps 7; Mid-City Tours 9; Self-Portrait in a Tourist’s Snapshots Burying the Hatchet 11; Joy Ride on the Gretna Ferry 12; Daughter of the Confederacy 14; The Last Holdout 16; Little Song for Kimberly 17; Where Y’at 18; Ode to Things 19; Dispatch to Runaway the Younger 21; Cumpleaños 22; The Family Jewels 25; Our Lady of Prompt Succor 26; Funky from Now on 27; Ode to Booze 28; The N-Word 30; Bestiary of the Bayou State 31; Foosball, Shania, and Thou 33; Blue Balls 34; Tubing on the Bogue Chitto 35; Pit Bull Pastoral 36; Hangman 37; Blessings for a Nemesis 38; Ode to the Pelican 39; Raw Oysters with My Rock Star Husband 40; Hurricane Party 43; Praying with Strangers 45; The Day the Music Stopped 46; 50-cent Words 47; Something in the Water 49; Shadow Ode 50; What I Did on My Summer Vacation 51; Louisiana Crude 53; Love Poem with Schooner and Ruins 54; Helicopter Hands 55; Katrina Scribendi 56; Stupid Praise 57; Invitation to the Gretna Royals 58; Tabasco in Space 59; Notes 63

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