New Orleans, Mardi Gras Day: wagon decorated as mini-float "Going to Hell in a Handbasket" with costume wearing children. Marigny neighborhood.

“We’re going to hell”

“We’re going to hell in a handbasket.”
I heard that saying
several times
long ago,
‘an allegorical locution
of unclear origin.’
I’m not sure how to unpack
that handbasket
to see what made it
an iconic cliché.
I just know
it’s relevant
now.

New Orleans, Mardi Gras Day: wagon decorated as mini-float "Going to Hell in a Handbasket" with costume wearing children. Marigny neighborhood.
New Orleans, Mardi Gras Day: wagon decorated as mini-float “Going to Hell in a Handbasket” with costume wearing children. Marigny neighborhood. [Photo: Infrogmation]

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