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The Corpse On Union Street

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Hellicane: Poets Respond to Hurricane Katrina

The corpse on Union Street Has lain there long enough to petrify Knees under tarp & naked feet

National Guard on the looter beat Cross themselves when they go by The corpse on Union Street

One took a picture: there is no delete No do-over, for this poor guy - Knees under tarp & naked feet

Four days left just like the meat Stinking up the market nearby The corpse on Union Street

Is the flag of its, his own defeat: A gun, not the storm, made him lie Knees under tarp & naked feet.

Leave him under that blue pastic sheet Let the living leave the dead to die: The corpse on Union Steet Knees under tarp & naked feet

Citation

“The Corpse On Union Street,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26323.