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I know a couple who were truck drivers and were actually delivering a load of 4 gallon size bottles of water for FEMA to the devestated area after Katrina. \r\n Upon their arrival at the drop site, they found a…

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I am a highly trained and experienced legal professional, a paralegal/legal secretary/legal assistant, in Jackson, MS, 160 miles north of the Gulf Coast. A few weeks after my 63rd birthday, I was downsized from the…

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The old songs\r\nsing the pain\r\nI have seen lately,\r\n\r\npenning its\r\npath on my\r\nface in wrinkled lines\r\n\r\nof writing ...\r\npoetry\r\nof life you can read.\r\n\r\nYou know the\r\nlyrics as\r\nwell as I do…

The Old Songs

dare i celebrate\r\n(in true mardi gras style),\r\nwhile others wait\r\nin deepenin shades of sorrow?\r\n\r\n(second lines of hot/\r\nhungry/thirsty/weary folk\r\nwatch the music leave\r\nthe quarter they sang…

Watching The Music…

ebb and flow, crash and blow\r\nwater rushes to and fro\r\ngive and take, provide, forsake\r\ncenturies toil laid to waste\r\n\r\nbubble and boil, rocks to soil\r\nthe timeless power waits...\r\nfor little winds, spins…

Katrina (in memory…

\"Crises always reveal a person\'s true character.\"\r\n\r\nI went back home to New Orleans recently\r\nto visit my parents and friends\r\n\r\nI remember talking to my friends\r\nand we were discussing\r\nwhat our new…

True Character

When a storm comes this way\r\nStruggle madly to get away\r\n\r\nCome back to nothing\r\nIt is all lost\r\nSo here I sit\r\n\r\nSitting mindless, it went free\r\nMy body is doomed to stay with me\r\n\r\nI cannot look…

When A Storm Comes…

why do they play with our hearts\r\nwhy do they act as if we aren\'t affected by it\r\nwhy do they think we are nothing\r\nwhy are we something\r\nwhy do they doubt us\r\nwhy do they treat us this way\r\nwhy do they…

Why

August 29, 2006 - one year to the day\r\nHurricane Katrina visited the USA\r\n\r\nPoliticians are in New Orleans making the rounds\r\nA shattered city desperately trying to rebound\r\n\r\nLouisiana and Mississippi seem…

The Horror Continues

It\'s hard living here... in New Orleans. It\'s post-Katrina.\r\nThe storm ruined everything. No one\'s here. Flooded houses.\r\nFlooded buildings. Flooded cars. Flooded people.\r\n\r\nIt\'s hard to live here. Most…

Spirit Will Get Us…