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A Human\'s Anger (Political Victim)

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Hellicane: Poets Respond to Hurricane Katrina

If it will make you feel better to hear me say that I am fine Then I'm fine... but deep down my heart is broken and on certain days I feel as if I'm losing my mind We were trapped in a hotel for 4 days I thought of our deaths a million different ways You tend to sway in and out of reality when your back is to the wall NO water...NO air...And it seemed like NO way out So your soul decides to free fall A small light shines and you get to escape Finding solice in a foreign town You turn on the television to see those who didn't make it out and guilt sets in Some of these people were my kin! And there was nothing I could do to set them free You go to playing mind games of...It should not be them, but instead be me Well today we are all FREE, and they ask me if I'm ever going back I have to catch myself, because a part of me wants to attack any and all who asks me that THEY WERE LEAVING PEOPLE THERE TO DIE!!!! And that shyt right there is a concrete fact Why should I return to a government who gives less that a fuck about me and my kin? The color of my people's skin was not of their liking So that gave them the green light to let lives come to an end They refer to us as refugees They may as well have called us slaves I'm not an advocate of murder, but these political bitches need to be 6 feet under ground Yep I'm saying it...They need to be dead in their graves I'm angry...I'm sad We're alive, but we lost ALL we ever had Don't get it twisted, we are happy to be alive, but this shyt here deeply makes us mad And if I had one wish I'd wish for those who perished to rise Katrina did her damage, but by political officials WE put in office is how we became victimized My name is Sunshyne and I survived Katrina but was almost killed by my government

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“A Human\'s Anger (Political Victim),” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26494.

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