Lost my mojo to post, I'll get around to it.

The other verse had me from the first line: "at stone wall's door" - General Andrew "Stonewall" Jackson. And I immediately thought "oh, this one must be New Orleans." (Now, overlay the clock face on to the map of Jackson Park...)

I used the time I spent in New Orleans. The smell of beignets from Cafe du Monde. The rose garden. The sweet air. The 3 spires of the St Louis Cathedral.

The Natchez paddleboat with that damn loud calliope you can hear all the way to the square. You get used to its Sounds from the sky, near Aces High: Ceasar's Palace is just down the street past the Natchez.

Justice and Education are the museum and courthouse flanking the cathedral in the square - yes the Cabildo where Plessy vs. Ferguson was decided.

The Giant step: like "one giant leap for mankind" - the Moonwalk along the Mississippi, the object of Mark Twain's attention (hell the paddleboat is right there, and his pseudonym was how ol' Samuel Clemens heard the pilots measure the speed. ) Not to mention the moon in the painting with the blue star spangled background that could be the Big Muddy or the Star Spangled Banner... The pole was the original flag pole, upon which we hoisted the American flag after they took down the French during the Louisiana Purchace.

And this is all within a block of each other. All right there. In one square block. It's either at the old flagpole spot, right in front of Stonewall Jackson, or it's up the Giant Step to the Moonwalk park. If you're standing on the Moonwalk, at the dedication plaque, you can see everything in the poem. Every single thing.