Bayou Bourbon (and Beer)

 

Ken Waldman is a writer, poet and fiddler who lived in Alaska and in Louisiana and has travelled around the nation.  He wrote a great tune called "A Week In Eek." I don't know where Ken calls home anymore though we see him occasionally up here in Alaska.  But he survived a plane crash and lived to write this poem and a hundred more.

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Bayou Bourbon (and Beer)

My man's working
and I'm tired of my life
washing and folding
everybody's laundry.
Hey now. Give me a bourbon,
a beer, an accordion player
who plays my music:
that wild-ass zydeco.
I want a good time here tonight.
I want to do more than iron
some man's pants.