Best Fat Tuesday Poems

Masked trickery within bayou nights
Under the diffusing Dixie lanterns glow
Flowing songs lost within legend and myth
Dancing with a quipster and pierrot 

Lovers and friends hidden in masquerade
In sequined illusions and beaded dancing 
These candid moments fading into night
Mirroring the revelry of years long past

Bal masque...

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Hey there, little Buddha, 
Let me join your Mistick Krewe.
Got my jazz hand clapping. 
Gonna drop the other shoe.
I strut my yo-yo yoga every doo-da day.
It get me so-so-sober in a drunken way.
Hey there, little Buddha, 
Voodoo me some déjà vu.
Those saints are marching in...

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Girls Gone Wild
Careful, you may just have a child 
Drugs and alcohol plague the alleyway 
Stay away as there is a price to pay
Is the meaning of Mardi Gras to go buck wild
Let’s look and see if it’s been defiled 

It started as a custom...

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Fat Tuesday

twelve hours remain~ to find a gluten free fausnacht!
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they supped on Bjurholm
drank Kumis
dined on haggis
and rubbed down
with sassafras oil

some made dessert from ackee fruit
and had puffer fish and shark fin soup
what word of satan they spoke
that they are evil and vain
there vanities covered by
thongs of
Xinjiang
and cursed all that forbade there way
of loving
they made...

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