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Hellicane: Poets Respond to Hurricane Katrina

Eric published an article a prophecy of sorts, with the vision of a fishbowl place In peril and sinking. Thousands to be lost, pumps to be overwhelmed and land to be quelched by overtopping waves.

Preacher preached a message. About heeding the warnings God gives us You can't put a city next to the sea below sea level. and not think something will be

Zarina saw the sights Kids at the aunts, a trip to the south where black men were plentiful and houses were built on stilts

Family man told the tale how he and his children got out past floods and sludge and anything uncanny "I aint going back, this place a fishbowl" (and government got a fishbowl mentality)

Jimmy played the bass The place of Jazz's birth Hot humid nights under the club-smoke filled scene as he thumbed the beat years before it all went down

John Doe water engineer sat thinking with a gun to his temple "why you want to try to take your life Mr. agency guy?" (Cause I got the blood of 1100 on my hands). And i had fishbowl mentality

Georgie said a prayer as a chief in command should a good heart with bad choices to fight a war, or build the coast? unwittingly in a fishbowl of red tape

`The Joneses family bought house after hassles with government and a foreign place they called home No more ice cream trucks on Humanity and the wonder of coming back soon

I wrote a story of a place I'd never seen of streets I'd never walked and an aura I never breathed of a city I've never lived but hope to see rebuild, reborn clean without the fishbowl mentality

Citation

“Fishbowl,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26503.