Best Levee Poems

Too Heavy For the Levee

There once was a girl on the levee
Who by anyone's judgment was heavy
She tried to get here
By crossing the pier
But ended up crushing the Chevy...

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Categories: levee, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 1, Part 7

Tom: Well, do tell? But like I said, I’m not a stranger. I’m a businessman; and more than that. Why, I could be just like a brother to you if you’d let me. Besides, I studied music once, too, but that was before I got...

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Categories: levee, allegory,
Form: Prose

Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 1, Part 6

The curtain rises on Bumblebee Babineaux walking self-confidently along Chartres Street.

Bumblebee [singing]: Ain’t nothin’ gonna break my stride, nobody’s gonna slow me down. Oh, no, I got to keep on movin’… 

Tom Sickley, a disingenuous feather merchant, is standing between a barber pole and a...

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Categories: levee, allegory,
Form: Prose

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Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 6

John: Sounds like I might like to straddle her equator with my meridian and throw down with a hula hoop on each arm. How soon can I execute my commission?

Mitchell: Do you like to eat sushi?

John: What else would I do with it?
 
Steve: Fish...

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Categories: levee, allegory, society,
Form: Prose Poetry

The Day the Levee Broke: Part 4

Next day no water supply

Child looks up to me with searchin eyes

"Daddy I'm thirsty" in a weak voice

To a papa I don't have no choice

The Good Ol Boy can't hear her voice

 

And now I'm Looting

 

I survived the tragedy

Now I got to do right...

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Categories: levee, natural disasters, me,
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Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 1, Part 1

The authors and their associates wish to offer an enthusiastic round of applause to The Bywater Bone Boys Social Aid and Pleasure Club for their gracious hospitality and inspirational charm. 

Welcome gentle enthusiasts of theatrical illusions and histrionic fantasias. We of the acting company, including...

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Categories: levee, allegory,
Form: Prose

The Day the Levee Broke: Part 5

Next day no water supply

Child looks up to me with searchin eyes

"Daddy I'm thirsty" in a weak voice

To a papa I don't have no choice

The Good Ol Boy can't hear her voice

 

And now I'm Looting

 

I survived the tragedy

Now I got to do right...

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Categories: levee, natural disasters, me,
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Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 3

Mitchell: At this level, as with the rest, one might also find those who have stumbled down from a higher step on the crystal staircase from dancing too many tangos in their Manolo Blahniks, as it were.

Steve: Your system bears the hallmarks of considered judgment...

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Categories: levee, allegory, society,
Form: Prose Poetry

Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 4

Steve: This sounds like the traditional Hindu caste system. I get it; all that Kama Sutra stuff.

John: You mean Kama Sutra IPA? It’s a local brew. Not bad.

Steve: Douche bag say wha?

John: Wha?

Steve: Please continue, Dr. Hollywood.

Mitchell: A Class B shedoo would be an average...

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Categories: levee, allegory, society,
Form: Prose Poetry

Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 1, Part 2

Allow me the opportunity to acquaint you with a few particulars regarding the background to our story and place the principals securely in the context of the setting in which we take our sojourn with them. Our story begins once upon a Mardi Gras, in...

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Categories: levee, allegory,
Form: Prose

Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 5

Mitchell: Good sirs, my word was fair. No discrepancy stains the pages of my ledger. The fifth tier is a sub-basement beneath the cellar floor of the temple’s vestibule. Any woman who is not tagged with the brand of the four usable tiers inhabits the...

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Categories: levee, allegory, society,
Form: Prose Poetry

Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 1

The curtain rises. Steve Merkin, the unscrupulous accountant, and John Travailleur, Esq. just another John, are seated at a bar in a seedy looking inn. Mitchell Hollywood, the adulterous innkeeper, is behind the bar. He is wearing a shabby mauve tuxedo with a green ascot....

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Categories: levee, allegory, society,
Form: Prose Poetry

The Day the Levee Broke: Part 1

August 2005
Hurricane Katrina 
wanted no man alive.
The Good Ol Boys 
said Head to the Dome
For those who can't get out on your own..
and they left us here all alone. 

And we are prayin

We are the United States
We will brave the wind, the storm
and the man-made...

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Categories: levee, natural disasters, hope,
Form:

Should the Levee Ever Break

Premiered at Rugged Old Crossroads Community Mission, 
New Orleans, LA – 10/16/2013

ACT 1

SEEKING LABYRINTHIA
BLUE JACKET BON VOYAGE
SAILING THE SEVEN SEAS
SHIP IN A BOTTLE
ISLAND OF DON DI VON KAIRE
BOX WINE BLUES 
THREE HAPPY ITALIANS 
VOYAGE
SUNSET BALLAD


ACT 2

LABYRINTHIA
NIKITA SOMETHING
VIGILENT MOJO
MEMPHIS BELLE
UN PEU COMME LA PLUIE 
ZULLY’S APOLOGY
ROUGH...

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Categories: levee, adventure, allegory,
Form: List

The Day the Levee Broke: Part 2

And now we're waitin

August 2005 
Levy gave way
wanted no man alive. 
Water rising all around us
Who has got a cell phone?
Man, they left us here all alone
They left us here on our own. 

But, we're still prayin 

We are the United States
We braved the storm,...

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Categories: levee, natural disasters, life,
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