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Monday, March 19, 2012

Darby - NOLA Greetings

Walk in, anywhere,
and “Hey y’all!”
can be heard.
Someone screams
at the top of their lungs,
in order to make it sincere.
It already was though. 
Greetings
say a lot about someone,
and in New Orleans,
the place we call home,
they are a part of life.
They say kindness,
happiness.
They’re for people we know,
and those we don’t,
everyone. 
If you aren’t from here,
we’re crazy until you begin to understand:
it doesn’t matter who you are,
we’ll do it no matter what.


Darby, age 17