NEW ORLEANS
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New Orleans  -  made it here at last; living in the French quarter,
Bourbon Street no less!  -  a sixty-year-old kid with a lollipop.

Burgundy Street, Canal Street, Basin Street,Decatur Street, what a litany:
strolling them all, chewing on a stalk of sugar-cane
(that kid with the lollipop again).

Later, in one of the most famous venues for revivalist jazz,
we were amazed to come across a notice by the dance floor: NO DANCING!
Here, bathed in a music invented for dancing to: NO DANCING!  -
how ludicrous!

Having had a couple of mint juleps earlier, we danced anyway!



pomposity pricked
to the tune of
'when you're smiling'