Hide and Go Seek by Alan Gann

M I crooked letter crooked letter I One Mississippi tribe band of Choctaw Two Mississippi myths riverboat gamblers calling aces and eights smiling slaves wishing they were back in Dixie away away Three Mississippi civil rights workers one black, two white arrested in June 1964 buried in a nearby dam crooked letter crooked letter I Four Mississippi one too many between lit fuse and firecracker tossed Five Mississippi deep inhales and exhales before I talk back to Mama Six Mississippi tourist traps The Gen. Steven D. Lee Education Museum Vicksburg Battlefield Soldier’s Rest at Cedar Hill Natchez Plantation Tour Fort Massachusetts on the Gulf Cannons at Corinth humpback humpback I Seven Mississippi rests stops between Alabama and Louisiana where we never stopped cause Mama said we didn’t need to go that bad Eight Mississippi cousins at the family reunion and learning some great-grandparents owned others Nine Mississippi musicians Robert Johnson Howl’n Wolf John Hurt Leontyne Price Tammy Wynette Conway Twitty Muddy Waters Bo Diddly and some guy named Elvis Ten Mississippi ready or not

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