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Jubilant Laughter
Humor as civic repair.
Laughter in New Orleans is infrastructure. French Quarter punchline, Bourbon Street belly laugh, brass band tease — each says survive anyway.
Symphony is declined. Healing is not innocence. It is noise you choose when the bill arrives.
Brigade is accurate: giggle shared, burden lightened one notch, belonging restored before the set ends.
The laugh still bounces off the next balcony.
JV · Dark Heart Labs