I died because I'm poor. (Compassionate mod kicks in a penny for the funeral)

Poet | I.C. Howe

[phoenixrising47]

I died because I'm poor.

I'm floating in the water. My Mom is accross from me. Mosquitos swarm around us. They're our only friends.

I'm in the United States. Of, America. Not Vietnam. I'm not on T.V. It's really me. I'm dying 'cause I'm poor.

Mama's eyes are fluttering. Like a butterfly. This is real. Please, people. Not a photo op. I'm dying 'cause I'm poor.

I spit on Mama's lips, to give her moisture. Her face turns cold. I'm crying 'cause I'm poor.

Oh, Mama! Dear sweet Mama. I wail into the sky. Where's that promising Bush? Mama didn't have to die.

Now it's my turn. I hear the helicopter, but have no strenth to go out on the porch. I'm dying 'cause I'm poor.

I hear the rotors of the blades. I'm hugging Mama. Get her warm. Oh, Mama, it's come to this. We're dying 'cause we're poor.

I reach out to the men. And suddenly it's black. My life's film has broke. It broke 'cause I'm poor.

It broke 'cause I'm poor. It didn't have to be. We did better in the Tsunami. We did better in the war.

We died 'cause we're poor

by I.C. Howe

[Ron in Acreage]

Lazy and stupid is more like it.

[Nickname]

You're kinda fat for being so poor.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Mama didn't have to die.

No she didn't. You could have gotten her out of town but you didn't.

Because you're stupid.

You could have stockpiled some food and water but you didn't.

Because you're stupid.

There are many things you could have done but didn't.

Because you're stupid.

And probably drunk.

[Xenalyte]

You are the next Maya Angelou. Lucky thing.

[builder]

Thankfully the U.S.A. is not run by people like you.

Oh wait!.New Orleans was run by people like you.

[gridlock]

It is not like it was a big secret that a hurricane was coming to New Orleans. Anybody who wanted to get out of town would have had enough time to walk to safety.

It is predictable but sad that after decades on the government dole, a few people have become completely incapable of taking care of themselves. The literally do not have enough sense to come in out of the rain.

When people become that disfuctional, some of them will die. It is sad, but true.

BTW, how many more months will we have to wait until the number of people killed in NO by floodwaters will be exceeded by the number of people who would have been killed by the normal rate of rape 'n murder that would have occured in NO if the storm had not come? Or has that date already gone by?

[jonascord]

It's an odd thing. While I've been broke, I've never been poor...

[Disambiguator]

Cryambic Pentameter.

[gridlock]

...

Now it's my turn. I hear the helicopter, but have no strenth to go out on the porch. I'm dying 'cause I'm poor.

I hear the rotors of the blades. I'm hugging Mama. Get her warm. Oh, wait a minute... That's just Congressman William Jefferson flying in to pick up the tin-foil wrapped money from his freezer.

I guess I'm screwed after all. I'm dying because I'm not a Congressman with a freezer full of money.

[Redleg Duke]

I see someone is having a pitty party based on lies this morning.

[true_blue_texican]

I thought that was some real moonbat anthology until I read the author's name -- TWICE!!!

[IronJack]

There's a beautiful dedication to her 15th child, Assinine,

I was goin' to write a ode to my chillruns too, 'specially my twins Shanda Lear and Chlymidia, but I was too busy tryin' to score crack and dodgin' Five Oh.

whereby she asks the age old question: 'And WHY is he lookin so blank?'

Not to be no gramma' nazi o' nuthin', but shouldn't that be "why BE he lookin' so blank?"

[Bars4Bill]

[SlowBoat407]

I.C. Dedpepl

[NavyCanDo]

The poet should be forced to watch The Grapes of Wrath over and over again until it sinks in what true poorness and desperation is. And then I suggest reading Tom Brokaw's book "The Greatest Generation" and learn a lesson about how people living in the poorest possible conditions managed through hard work, faith in God, and sticking together as a family unit managed to pull themselves out of the hopeless situation.

[cripplecreek]

To quote Whoopie.

"GET YOUR HANDS OF MY VAGINA"

[gridlock]

They will pray for our deaths.They do not care about you or your children.

Well, DUH! What was your first clue!

[VoiceOfBruck]

zech, you must see the pic in comment #144

[humblegunner]

I axed for a FEMA card so I could get some pottery poetry lessings.

[nonliberal]

I learned that one when I was in third grade. That part has not grown up yet.