Louisiana Words Live: The Future Is Now  happened on Sunday, March 10th @7:30pm at the Always Lounge & Cabaret in New Orleans ! The show starred Louisiana Words Allstar , T.Q. Sims! T.Q. read an excerpt from his new science fiction novel, Godspeed, Lovers ! He was also our featured writer for the month of March on LouisianaWords.com.  The show featured Louisiana Words Live host, J. Michael Norris, open mic reader: Cole Held, and a special appearance by Louisiana Words creator, Louis Toliver Jr! We are currently casting more writers for our next show on Sunday, September 1st, 2024! If you want to read  at our next show or submit to LouisianaWords.com , please shoot us a message via Facebook page, Instagram (@louisianawords1), or e-mail us at louisianawords@gma il.com. Louis Toliver Jr. unveils Louisiana Words as a LGBTQIA+ and ally soon-to-be nonprofit organization that promotes writers who live or who have lived in Louisiana! Louis hopes that Louisiana Words w...

Louis Toliver Jr. unveils Louisiana Words as a LGBTQIA+ and allies soon-to-be nonprofit organization that promotes writers who live or who have lived in Louisiana! Louis hopes that Louisiana Words will be a creative outlet that helps uplift and empower each other!

T.Q. Sims reads from his novel (Godspeed, Lovers) at Louisiana Words Live: Future Is Now on March 10th, 2024 at The Allways Lounge & Cabaret in New Orleans, LA. See all videos from this show and more content from many other writers at LouisianaWords.com.

Cole Held reads at Louisiana Words Live: Future Is Now on March 10th, 2024 at The Allways Lounge & Cabaret in New Orleans, LA. See all videos from this show and more content from many other writers at LouisianaWords.com.

J. Michael Norris reads at Louisiana Words Live: Future Is Now on March 10th, 2024 at The Allways Lounge & Cabaret in New Orleans, LA. See all videos from this show and more content from many other writers at LouisianaWords.com.

Louis Toliver Jr. reads at Louisiana Words Live: Future Is Now on March 10th, 2024 at The Allways Lounge & Cabaret in New Orleans, LA. See all videos from this show and more content from many other writers at LouisianaWords.com.

  Thoughts. Is it ever often considered how much we as human beings think in a day? Quite a lot of ideas, plans, aphorisms, imaginations, wonders, if you think about it. There is so much going on in our heads, about anything and everything. What we did that day, what we planned to accomplish, who we would meet, if we had time to finish what we needed to do, if you'd actually have to wait in line to get lunch, if your crush would actually acknowledge you that day; the list goes on and on and on. Very rarely do we stop, reflect upon what we've done and what we've thought, and moved on. Few have mastered it, and many still endlessly wander through the maze of their mind. At times, I wonder if the thoughts will continue, even after this life, or the life after that, or the life after. It is a scary thought, to actually think forever, perpetually lost in random crevices of our imagination. Will it ever stop?  No one really knows, but then again, who ever will? I write this in ho...

I shall watch as the city becomes rubble and burns I shall watch, and I shall laugh because of course nobody learns I shall watch as the city empties and greys because the arrogantly ignorant just won't learn new ways So, let them hurry, let them worry themselves into an early mass grave I have too little time and too many rhymes to be diverted by divergent drones So when the flames begin it'll be Bourbon, not gin that will be added to the juice in my glass and as I drink my juice while you idiots run loose I'll be sitting back laughing drunk off my ass