Ekphrastic Ghazal for The Puzzled Faced Brown Girls

Way Down Yonder in New Orleans

Why the puzzled face brown girl, ICE is the spice
of rice at El Exquisito on Williams Blvd, ICE is the spice.

Federal Immigration is nice brown girl, here for a feast at KIPP East
brown girl, why so red girl, orange girl, gold girl, ICE is the spice.

Kenner PD will dance with you and me brown girl, salsa
in cuffs brown girl, it takes troops to tango, Catahoula Crunch Spice.

250 plates brown girl, 5,000 thousand waists brown girl, two month wait,
But you say Taqueria Guerrero closed brown girl– ICE is the spice.

Let’s get low at Lowe’s on Elysian Fields brown girl, I’m
Nueva Galicia brown girl why the puzzled face- ICE is the spice.