lets play.

so there we were driving home laughing in your car, the New Orleans roads bumping us up and down and feeling broken hearted and flinging lose change all over the front seat. And I thought about all those nights we spent in the taco bell parking lot, smiling, getting hot beans and cheese down our faces. Colorado sometimes I need to be taught the way to come home.

And then I remember the night that I fell in love with you. we went to this party not far from where you used to live. and this was when everyone moved away and moved on and I was getting older. we walked in and took shots out of vodka out of the freezer with the hosts. I give you credit in this new environment. we sat on the dirty carpet of the apartment and wished my friend a happy birthday. We swam in the pool in the lobby, I remember looking at you and loving you, and loving how much you didn't fit into my world. We walked home with dripping hair. stoned and drunk we walked into your apartment holding hands and shivering. You turned the bathtub on for me so I could warm up. And as I sat in the tub i started to cry, my chest filling up with pain like water. and I sat in the water not making much noise. I cried and cried like a kid. I felt like the home that I had both loved and hated was never coming back. And then you came in the bathroom sat at the edge of the tub and hugged me wet and naked. overwhelming overwhelming was all I could say. and you said you understood. and in some strange way we had seen god together in the bathroom that night and I fell in love with you.


So tonight as I feel you fading, my most comforting lover I remember that night in the colorado winter.


But tonight as we get on the highway in New Orleans as we pass the superdome with the music loud and I feel good. and this Amtrack train pulls up next to us as it approaches the New Orleans station and I wonder about the people on it. Are they coming to NO for the first time? Are they moving here? are they in love? did someone die?

And so we roll down our windows and yell at the top of our lungs:

WELCOME TO NEW ORLEANS!