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You Locked \'Em In & Let \'Em Rot For Five Days

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Hellicane: Poets Respond to Hurricane Katrina

you locked 'em in and let 'em rot for five days who knew you could use FEMA to keep help away... congratulations! you've finally graduated from President Lionel Hutz to third world Emperor (can't call you what i'd like cause it's your n-word and makes you get all blood in the face - yavoll!)

you've just become Baby Doc and Mobutu become the worst combination of Nixon, Harding and Andrew Jackson - strumming that guitar a Texas Nero still on vacation and what about your pirate band? Condi can't be bothered she's painting the big apple red Cheney's away at a secluded spot getting his light saber readjusted... Rove is back in the shadows, spinning...

you can tell me... it was a business decision, wasn't it? an impulsive stroke of short-term genius icing on the vacation cake to take the taste of Cindy Sheehan's anger and grief out of your mouth... let's let mother nature do over here what Mugabe's doing to his shanty towns - clearing brush and hey, rumors of looting darkies works for us... Osama must be laughing - these guys are doing a better job than any Al Quida sleeper cell...

some of your smirking repent america christian patriot rapture rangers no doubt smiled at the spectacle "when the rapture comes all you heathens will be just like that..." uh huh...and god is a klansman, right? this ain't the apocalypse, you sheep's clothing Jesus-boys merely incompetence of biblical proportions

hope you enjoy the ride cause hey, the jig is up: the drive-by photo-ops will no longer do the webs you've been spinning obscured your view and when Fox starts kicking your ass you oughta get a clue! but then you lied us into a war you're fighting on the cheap an expensive campaign where parents scrape together to buy their kids' body armor... why wouldn't the cavalry be half-assed and late but thanks for giving all us locals a heads up: we can't depend on you at all if the crap hits the fan wherever 'right here' is unless you're a card-carrying member of the country club

hey, numbnuts! your vacation is over your next two as well - as the recession ripples slowly fan out as things get more expensive and may start to run out as the military is slowly burned out as we follow the Soviets into a slow collapse... if the rabble gets too uppity you can always declare martial law but whose troops would you use... Hey, China holds our busted IOU's and they believe in profits now... they'll do

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“You Locked \'Em In & Let \'Em Rot For Five Days,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26297.

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