Life, Post-Ike

Last January, she hosted a CD release party at the Poop Deck for NASCAR Junkie, a collection of 12 auto racing-themed songs with her lyrics. "I am a poet," she declares. "I am not a musician. I don't know anything about music other than I like the way it sounds. I wish I could sing but I can't. My voice is horrible." More recently, a poem of hers called "Storm Surge" has been transformed into a honky-tonk weeper by Ronnie Watts, "The Saltwater Cowboy." Although the song is not directly about Ike, the imagery certainly is.

Business at the Poop Deck this summer has been normal, Creasy says, both with her regulars and the tourist trade. "The girls seem to be happy, the boss seems to be happy, nobody's complainin'," she says. To her, Galveston as a whole is pretty much back to normal. The restaurants are open again. "Pretty much everyone has put their lives back together and those that haven't are leavin'," she says. She's even composed a little poem about Galveston's recovery, which she recites while beaming from ear to ear: "Galveston's comin' back to life / you picked the trash up off the streets / you put the sand back on the beach / and you had Mardi Gras right on time in 2009."

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And she has changed her mind about one big thing. She now says that if another storm threatened the Poop Deck, once more she would refuse to abandon ship.

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