Post by AquarianM on Sep 7, 2005 at 7:54am
The Simplest Evil...All it takes is a glance,
Just look the other way in the heat of the moment,
Pretend you don't see the very stones you are standing upon.
Perhaps they won't even exist.
You can spend days creating a new reality,
No need for that hammer and nails son,
The house is standing just fine.
In twenty feet of water.
The eyes that see the murky depths are countless,
Not even the computers are sure,
How many ghosts are in the rotting rafters.
Just turn away and it's not your fault at all.
The Big Easy is now a showcase of Voodoo economics,
No more red beans and rice on Mondays,
There's only a couple of groups well fed in New Orleans these days.
Maybe the 'gators and most of all the snakes.
AquarianM
By: Daniel A. Stafford
© 09/07/2005
Author's Comments:
I wish that I could be writing of something else. It breaks my heart to write something like this of my own country, but I have to. I have to call it like I see it. It infuriates me that so many people were left on their own for so long, so many resources turned away, witheld, wasted. The things I am hearing are terrible and dark. The only plus I can see is that all this darkness is shedding light on things that have long needed to be realistically addressed. It's too much to bear without writing witness for all the souls lost. The next thing I have to do is figure out what I personally can do to help, and that will be an obligation to meet at least monthly for a long time to come, because all of us here need to do what we can for the victiims. They are our countrymen.