We\'re Not Only Afraid Of The Rising Water

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Hellicane: Poets Respond to Hurricane Katrina

\r\nWe\'re not only afraid of the rising water\r\nBut now the looters\r\n\r\nI asked them where they were goin\'\r\nThey didn\'t know\r\nThey didn\'t know\r\nThey have no place to go\r\n\r\nThey were on rooftops for days\r\nIt\'s gonna be a long time, a very long time\r\n\r\nThey don\'t know\r\n\r\nIt\'s something you can\'t imagine\r\nIt\'s close to home\r\nIt\'s Home\r\n\r\nYou feel bad for them\r\nThis is us\r\nDid you think this would happen to you?\r\n\r\nI don\'t want to get caught in no water\r\nJust keep walkin\'\r\nJust keep walkin\'\r\n\r\nI don\'t know what to say\r\nIf I\'d know\'d it\'d be this bad\r\nI\'d a just kept on goin\'\r\n\r\nThey don\'t know where they\'re goin\'\r\nThey know they don\'t have the means to get there\r\n\r\nEverything\'s devastation &\r\nIt\'s been a nightmare\r\nHoly holy hell\r\nI thought they\'d have more boats\r\n\r\nLost in your own City\r\nNails, 2-by-4s, splinters\r\nStacks of bloated bodies\r\nBlock the bridge\r\n\r\nThe Wauter\r\nPatois: Creole\r\nCajun\r\n\r\nWe thought we was gonna die\r\nWe thought everybody was gonna die\r\n

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“We\'re Not Only Afraid Of The Rising Water,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed December 24, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26294.