Saturday
Weather sunny and mild, just right.

First Destination
City Park Sculpture Garden (Free)
The best part about getting from Uptown to City Park is the highway overpass.
Cruising down onto the neutral ground.
Under Construction – good to see. Promises of future beautification.
Abstract / Pop / Classical / Zen
LOVE Blue Dogs
Play giant paper clips.
Frame perspective
Ring in war and chaos and tense freaks.

Depart

Second Destination
No such place – it becomes random.
WPA bridges
Destroyed light poles
Forgotten pavilions
Endless acres of mysterious flute
impossible to pinpoint.
Tophat, mustache, parasol.

Out into St. Bernard
Abandoned homes
X… (pray for zeroes)
Remnants of a housing project
plaques and signs
Promises of future beautification.

A major street
a place
Urban Tableaux of American Decay
old bus pulls from the curb
so worn, no fucking respect
Car Wash and Frozen Drinks
Checks Cashed
Bebidas / Braids / Wax
Social aid and pleasure.

Getting closer to the Business District
HERE Important People Get Things Done
DRINK AJAX BEER!
if only
Across the street from the hospital is another.
Art Deco chain-linked landmark
Pull right up and look.
Automatic door green arrow keep out.

And in a blink, hotels, tourists, Burbon Street.
Frat boys in polo shirts and croakies.
Gaggles of giggling girls.
time for daiquiris and HUGE ASS BEERS.

And that park with the new theater?
Closed.
Unless you go around…
Skaters claim odd urban half-finished waste
Punk mutters menacingly, “that looks like my bike.”
Keep peddling and KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN
Truth / Justice / Liberty / Art… in progress
promise of future beautification?

Back up to home base the facades become more orderly.
Pinks and Blues / Designer Patio Furniture
Landscaping – the perennial obsession
BUY Antiques and bongs, sashimi, gelato and big, fat cigars.
Forget what has happened.
Move on.