The Green Tricycle: Issue #6: Wish: Allen Itz

Issue 6:
Wish
Allen Itz

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I wish

I wish
I could write
the way those cajun boys talk
down in Louisiana

I'd write a story
and pretend
my dribbling dry creek
was the mississippi
and my back porch
was a sturdy little pirogue
tied tight
against its cool and mossy bank

and I'd sit in my pirogue
and watch that river
just passing on by

I'd suck me some
crawdad heads

eat some of that
spicy gumbo

maybe jambalaya
with peppers
and fine little shrimps

red beans and rice
with deep fried
dumplings

listen
to some of that boot-stomping zydeco
from queen ida or clifton chenier
or the zydeco twisters

you becha mon

I'd be having me a high old time
sitting on my pirogue watching
the mississippi flow by
if I could write like those cajun fellas
talk

a high old time indeed

~Allen Itz

Allen's work also appears in many ezines, including The Horsethief's Journal, Alchemy, Avante Garde Times, Maelstrom, Dynamic Patters, The Melic Review, Neiderngasse, Nectarzine, and others, and on several forums, including the Blueline Poetry Forum. Email.

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