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Hellicane: Poets Respond to Hurricane Katrina

Flooded New Orleans means No more good rice and red beans

Fewer feet On Bourbon street

Stuff happens to make the blues Maybe not what we choose Don't want to lose

All our stuff And see the neighbors getting tough

Those who survived Got out alive Could drive

Escape While superman loses his cape

Rape, murder and looting Taxpayers shooting Uncle Sam rooting

For the war

I mean the Gulf Coast While drinking champagne and offering a toast

To all those cats on hot tin roofs What more proof

Do we need You know greed

Is starring in this arena Executive powers co-produced, directed by Hurricane Katrina

Citation

“New Orleans,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26333.