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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

Wow, that was really good. I could almost hear some other dead person playing the bongo drums while I was reading it.


301 posted on 06/26/2006 3:37:54 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: phoenixrising47; darkwing104
Some "whine" to go with your cheeese.

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302 posted on 06/26/2006 3:39:39 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: phoenixrising47

His name should be "I.B. Stupid."


303 posted on 06/26/2006 3:39:44 PM PDT by FormerLib ("...the past ten years in Kosovo will be replayed here in what some call Aztlan.")
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To: phoenixrising47


304 posted on 06/26/2006 3:40:04 PM PDT by glock rocks ("Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats." -- P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: phoenixrising47

Get a job loser


305 posted on 06/26/2006 3:40:31 PM PDT by vigilante2 (Thank You Veterans)
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To: phoenixrising47

Sink or swim, little troll...sink or swim.


306 posted on 06/26/2006 3:42:34 PM PDT by JRios1968 (There's 3 kinds of people in this world...those who know math and those who don't.)
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To: Xenalyte

I really just don't care that you died. Your poetry sucked.


307 posted on 06/26/2006 3:44:55 PM PDT by bfree (Liberalism-the yellow meat)
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To: phoenixrising47

Was it a black helicopter and did you have on your tinfoil hat?


308 posted on 06/26/2006 3:45:44 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: Xenalyte
by I.C. Howe

I see hoes on Burbon Street, too!

309 posted on 06/26/2006 3:48:47 PM PDT by chemicalman (Many have skeletons in their closets. In New Orleans, we have skeletons in our attics.)
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To: phoenixrising47
I'm floating in the water....

I spit on Mama's lips, to give her moisture.

Now wait. If you are floating in the water why don't you put some of that water on Mama's lips? Why spit?

Maybe you're poor because you are really, really stupid?

310 posted on 06/26/2006 3:50:59 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Left created, embraces and feeds "The Culture of Hate." Make it part of the political lexicon!)
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To: 50sDad

Now that's great poetry!


311 posted on 06/26/2006 3:51:47 PM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: phoenixrising47

Aren't these the lyrics of the song Keith Urban sang at his wedding?


312 posted on 06/26/2006 3:51:53 PM PDT by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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To: Kozak

Thanks. That line is funny, not as funny as the "pome," but right up there.


313 posted on 06/26/2006 3:54:51 PM PDT by Barset
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To: phoenixrising47
"I died because I'm poor."

And why are you and your momma poor?

314 posted on 06/26/2006 3:55:05 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Ouch!


315 posted on 06/26/2006 3:57:33 PM PDT by Barset
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To: Bars4Bill
Hey man, I stole your animated gif and turned into Tom Daschle. Thanks! Hope you don't mind.


316 posted on 06/26/2006 4:00:45 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: phoenixrising47

Da Mayor got nu scool buses.

317 posted on 06/26/2006 4:03:37 PM PDT by usmcobra (A single rogue Marine, yeah that can happen, but a whole Unit, only a liberal would believe that BS)
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To: Sloth

That pic is so great. I'm dying here from laughing so hard. Please, somebody, write a "pome" on me.

Everyone is running upstairs to see what I'm laughing about. They are spilling drinks and crying at this pic.


318 posted on 06/26/2006 4:04:02 PM PDT by Barset
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To: 50sDad

Wow! Spot on!


319 posted on 06/26/2006 4:07:11 PM PDT by Barset
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To: phoenixrising47
I'm dying because I'm poor
I'm poor because leeches in Washington swamp have been sucking my blood
I'm poor because leeches in blue enclaves have convinced others that its ok to suck the sweat of my brow, and reap the harvest of my initiative
I'm poor because lampreys of legislation have decided to drain me, and throw a yoke on my shoulders while stating I'm not working hard enough for those who will not lift a finger to help my burden
My spirit is dying because despite being told I can achieve the American dream, those things I strive for are given away to those who cut in line
My lifeblood bleeds, from a thousand cuts in my back from those who I have supported, who have told me they are looking out for my best interests
As I die, ,and having scavangers feed upon my life's blood, I sip arsenic, and bend that portion of my mind that remains free, to salt the earth under your hiding places
When I have passed and you scurry away to enjoy your fill, there will be nothing left, and in your death throes, know that that rictus upon my skull is truly a grin....

Morbidity deserves morbidity.

320 posted on 06/26/2006 4:07:39 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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