A Blind Lady Is SingingAuthor(s): James NolanSource: Callaloo, Vol. 29, No. 4, American Tragedy: New Orleans under Water (Autumn, 2006),p. 1254Published by: The Johns Hopkins University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4488442 .

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A BLIND LADY IS SINGING

by James Nolan

in front of Walgreens on Royal in the rain, face screwed up into a pale wrinkled sun "Those were the days,

my friends"---O the actors and theaters, the poets and readings, the painters and galleries-"we thought they'd never end, we'd live..."

The Quarter is shut down, Canal St. an ashen ghost town. Hail the conquering heroes from Halliburton and FEMA triumphant in a tourist buggy.

Callaloo 29.4 (2007) 1254

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