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Humanity St. Is Under Water

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Hellicane: Poets Respond to Hurricane Katrina

while the president is on vacation from compassion

his mother fingering the wattles under her pearls fears not the corpses but the poor evacuated too close to her country club

the secretary of state is off on a shopping spree

the emergency manager never learned to manage

so children plead for help husbands watch wives swept under pets drown

& the president consults his hacks about the dive in his approval ratings

there's poison in the water that floods Humanity St.

Citation

“Humanity St. Is Under Water,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26289.

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