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

Posted on 06/26/2006 5:44:09 AM PDT by 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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
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To: phoenixrising47

Lazy and stupid is more like it.


201 posted on 06/26/2006 6:46:22 AM PDT by Ron in Acreage (Liberal Democrats-Party before country, surrender before victory, generous with other peoples money.)
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To: phoenixrising47

You're kinda fat for being so poor.


202 posted on 06/26/2006 6:46:33 AM PDT by Nickname
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To: phoenixrising47
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.

203 posted on 06/26/2006 6:48:17 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The bottom 60% does 40% of the work, the top 40% does 60% of the work. Just who are the "workers"?)
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To: Allegra

You are the next Maya Angelou. Lucky thing.


204 posted on 06/26/2006 6:48:24 AM PDT by Xenalyte (The wages of sin are death, but after taxes are taken out it's just sort of a tired feeling.)
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To: phoenixrising47
Thankfully the U.S.A. is not run by people like you.

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

205 posted on 06/26/2006 6:55:27 AM PDT by builder (I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
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To: phoenixrising47

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?


206 posted on 06/26/2006 6:55:53 AM PDT by gridlock (What is most important to you is more important to you than it is to anybody else.)
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To: phoenixrising47

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


207 posted on 06/26/2006 6:58:11 AM PDT by jonascord ("Let 'em burn!...")
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To: phoenixrising47

Cryambic Pentameter.


208 posted on 06/26/2006 6:58:27 AM PDT by Disambiguator (I'm not paranoid, just pragmatic.)
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To: phoenixrising47
...

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.

209 posted on 06/26/2006 6:59:53 AM PDT by gridlock (What is most important to you is more important to you than it is to anybody else.)
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To: phoenixrising47

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


210 posted on 06/26/2006 7:00:43 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (¡Salga de los Estados Unidos de América, invasor!)
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To: nonliberal

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


211 posted on 06/26/2006 7:00:55 AM PDT by true_blue_texican
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To: small voice in the wilderness
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?"

212 posted on 06/26/2006 7:02:34 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: phoenixrising47

213 posted on 06/26/2006 7:03:10 AM PDT by Bars4Bill
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To: phoenixrising47

I.C. Dedpepl

214 posted on 06/26/2006 7:04:39 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (What is our exit strategy in the war on poverty?)
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To: phoenixrising47
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.
215 posted on 06/26/2006 7:04:57 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: phoenixrising47

To quote Whoopie.

"GET YOUR HANDS OF MY VAGINA"


216 posted on 06/26/2006 7:05:45 AM PDT by cripplecreek (I'm trying to think but nothing happens)
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To: after dark
They will pray for our deaths.They do not care about you or your children.

Well, DUH! What was your first clue!

217 posted on 06/26/2006 7:05:51 AM PDT by gridlock (What is most important to you is more important to you than it is to anybody else.)
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To: Zechariah_8_13

zech, you must see the pic in comment #144


218 posted on 06/26/2006 7:09:20 AM PDT by VoiceOfBruck (optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: Xenalyte
I axed for a FEMA card so I could get some pottery poetry lessings.
219 posted on 06/26/2006 7:10:02 AM PDT by humblegunner (If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
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To: true_blue_texican

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


220 posted on 06/26/2006 7:12:44 AM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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