There, on the surface of Napoleon Avenue

in the indifferent heart of New Orleans

there reemerges the orgy of crazy carnival.

See the airplane; protruded from its window

a train of bridal gown of twelve hundred meters,

an extra reason for Guines to fool upstart nations.  *

Millions of dollars torn as confetti

thrown around from chariots of two stores.

Millions of dollars as garlands stitched

οn particoloured uniforms, under underclothes....

...there, so much buzz making all people deaf

not remembering the clamor of typhoon Catrina

(two years past, memory can’t hold clamors back) 

that plans to fall upon and relevel such a feast,

flexible so as to leave the schools upright.

There, on the surface of Napoleon Avenue

in the indifferent heart of New Orleans

tell me, how mane times are we to die

in how many successive Waterloos?

* footnote : a designer of a newly rich country won a Guines "award" for his bridal gown (1200 meters length)...