✍ WHAT GOES UP / October 2024
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Roman à clef, cher.
Created A. I. free
by Leonard Earl Johnson
of Lafayette and New Orleans, Louisiana
© 2024, Leonard Earl Johnson, All Rights Reserved
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October 2024
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⭐ WHAT GOES UP ⭐
Continuation of the Red Women Warriors Series
BY Leonard Earl Johnson
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Amtrak 🚅.....
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The train bearing our little klatch of
Red-Hatted
Women-for-The-Donald
wobbles off down the tracks leading from Lafayette, Louisiana to the Texas border.
At a table under the club car's upper deck observation
dome sits the large woman who boarded in Lafayette with a small following and the biggest red hat she could find in Dallas. She opens a green alligator briefcase exactly like the one Sylvia and Balthazar took to New Orleans, and extracts a clear cube inside of which sits a solidly frozen Republican Snowball.
"A manifest example of non- Global Warming."
She continues,
"To paraphrase our leader,
'Global Warming is a Wacky
Wokey Liberal Hoaxy'."
She smiles at one of her acolytes and instructs her to pass pamphlets to three glum faced women watching from the table across the aisle.
The three women are bound for Lake Charles. They hold red paper coffee cups liberally laced with Bourbon, and wear faces that are liberally skeptical.
Now they live in Lafayette. They previously lived in Lake Charles and
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| Capital One Bank's Bank One Tower Lake Charles, Louisiana |
"Makes you think FEMA and investors might know more 'bout Global Warming than Donald Trump and the Republicans do." one of the former Lake Charles residents says to the acolyte handing her a pamphlet.
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Meanwhile in Lafayette, at the Rosa Parks Amtrak stop, Sylvia and Balthazar cross Jefferson Street for Rêve Coffee Roasters. There they are greeted by their friend, The Mulato, who asks if
they brought Stormy Daniels back with them for Halloween.
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"But Balthazar did buy a Trump Voodoo Doll for twenty-dollars, from a street picker at a gas station under the Broad Street overpass."
Balthazar holds up the little orange headed doll with a long hat pin through its bloated chest. The Mulato sits their coffee on the counter and laughs.
Balthazar picks up the cups and they move out to the curbside tables. Sylvia unlocks their broken green alligator brief case and transfers it and its empty snowball cube to a Rouses Supermarket bag.
Shortly an Uber driver pulls up, takes the bag and drives off down Jefferson Street. The Street is under an early Fall canopy of browning
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| Spring budding, Bald Cypress Trees Jefferson Street, Lafayette, Louisiana Photo credit: Leonard Earl Johnson |
Bald Cypress Trees gathering deciduous needles round their knees, and around storm drains up and down The Hub City's Great Art Way.
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Lagniappe du Jour
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| Implosion Day, Bank One Tower Lake Charles, Louisiana |
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| Jefferson Street Cypress Knees The Great Art Way, Lafayette, Louisiana Photo credit: Leonard Earl Johnson |
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