How do we work?

Once every few weeks a new topic will be displayed on the blog. Young people, ages 5 - 96, will submit their responses. Student writing will be posted as it is received. Know someone that would love to contribute? Pass the word.

Blog #14 Topic Choices:
Write about a place or an aspect of New Orleans that has influenced you OR use the words "Escaping the heat/to get out of the heat..." of New Orleans.

Submission Logistics: Submissions should be in response to the blog topic. Poetry and prose, up to 500 words in length, should be emailed as a Microsoft Word attachment. Emails should include author’s first name, age, and School.

Submissions can be sent to: youngneworleanswritingtogether@gmail.com
Submission due date: May 31st, 2012 @ 5pm

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Brooke - NOLA Myths

No. You cannot take a taxi here.
Bareback on alligator or perot
But the former only if the location is near
Nawlins tourists, here we go.

Don’t expect to find chicken or to wash
Swallow when you can getcha some gator or bull frog
Served up with a side of grammatical goulash
Does it look funny? It’s not like we would eat a dog.

You really shouldn’t drink the water
Cause Lord knows, how much it is mudded
Can’t come to the Fait Dos Dos, daughter
Ya’ll know I can’t leave because my house is still flooded.

For the record we don’t bury the dead
We’ll keep you in a little white house indefinitely
Why, how could a person rest in peace rotting in lead?
Fear not, your bones can be used for voodoo sorcery.

Brooke, age 17


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