Collection

Preparing for a national tragedy that in time will come Stacked across Hope, Arkansas a housing storage sprung House trailers fill that airfield like a ladder, rung by rung With this inventory of housing, homeless we wouldn't be stung

A sea of new roofs abound as you cast a glance around Twenty five thousand or more not fastened to the ground Without any children's laughter or nary a whimper of sound Only a stupid rule by FEMA halts this national glorious crown

900 million dollars we paid for immediate housing before our eyes Can't be dispersed to a flooding zone and again victims' hope dies Dispersing these homes to Katrina victims, silencing their cries A few miles north of the coast where trailer cities should take rise

Why pay 900 million and add 25 thousand a month storage to that Our belfry isn't empty, it's filled with stupidity instead of a bat How many dense bureaucrats should wear a pointed dunce hat How many gutless politicians on their spineless backs not get a pat

Communities have had house trailers that suffered many a storm Is their thinking that travel trailers will be towed if a storm is born Not everyone has a trailer hitch, that never has been the norm But keeping these homes in storage really does raise my scorn