Gulf Music.(POEMS)(Poem)

Poetry | October 1, 2006| | Copyright 
 
Gulf Music 
 
   Mallah walla tella bella. Trah mah trah-la, la-la-la, 
   Mah la belle. Ippa Fano wanna bella, wella-wah. 
 
   The hurricane of September 8, 1900 devastated 
   Galveston, Texas. Some 8,000 people died. 
 
   The Pearl City almost obliterated. Still the one worst 
   Calamity in American history, Woh mallah-walla. 
 
   Eight years later Morris Eisenberg sailing from Lubeck 
   Entered the States through the still-wounded port of Galveston. 
 
   1908, eeloo hotesy, hotesy-ahnoo, hotesy ahnoo mi-Mizraim. 
   Or you could say "Morris" was his name. A Moshe. 
 
   Ippa ...

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