I Can’t Be The First To Post This But…
God help the people of News Orleans…
Long before the Superdome
Where the saints of football play
Lived a city that the damned call home
Hear their hellish rondelet…
New Orleans!
Home of pirates, drunks and whores
New Orleans!
Tacky, overpriced souvenir stores
If you want to go to hell, you should take a trip
To the Sodom and Gomorrah of the Mississip’
New Orleans!
Stinking, rotten, vomiting, vile
New Orleans!
Putrid, brackish, maggotty, foul
New Orleans!
Crummy, lousy, rancid and rank
New Orleans!
But let’s not forget…
You can always depend on the kindness of strangers
To buck up your spirit, and shield you from danger
Now here’s a tip from Blanche you won’t regret
A stranger’s just a friend you haven’t met
You haven’t met! Streetcar!
September 1st, 2005 at 12:03 pm
How long until somebody sues the US Weather Service or something for failure to give enough warning?
How long until the Christian Taliban blame the disaster on permissiveness in America? “Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!”
How long until there’s pictures of Palestinians dancing in the streets of Gaza at America’s catastrophe?
And what the fuck is going on? They knew this was coming for decades. People are dying in the Convention Center in New Orleans. People are starving, dehydrating to death in the one of the most important cities of the American South. The President is mouthing null phonemes in Washington and his press secretary is dodging questions by the press corps.
CNN is doing an amazing job of covering this, and even asking tough questions of the powers. Miles O’Brian had Hailey Barbour, governor of Mississippi in a corner and the governor was all testy and pissy because basically he couldn’t answer the unspoken question behind Miles’ words:”Just what the fuck are you suits in power doing?”
The mayors of New Orleans and Baton Rouge are good men in bad situations and deserve better.
And Jesus Christ, so do the people of New Orleans and the Gulf coast.