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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
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posted on
06/26/2006 5:47:40 AM PDT
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: phoenixrising47
You died because you were ZOTTED!
To: Xenalyte
It's supposed to be, like, poetry or something
Oh its something alright.
To: phoenixrising47
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posted on
06/26/2006 5:47:53 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: phoenixrising47
Your dying because you had a selfish Mayor, who left town to get his family to safety, but forgot to send out the schoolbuses for the poor people.
25
posted on
06/26/2006 5:47:57 AM PDT
by
syriacus
(Superfunds aren't needed, since ONE WORD from a Dem neutralizes lethal chemicals -- "rust.")
To: phoenixrising47
26
posted on
06/26/2006 5:48:02 AM PDT
by
Mercat
(Looks like all the Dummies got for Fitzmas was a beat-up scooter)
To: phoenixrising47
27
posted on
06/26/2006 5:48:17 AM PDT
by
Pistolshot
(Condi 2008.<------added January 2004. Remember you heard it here first)
To: phoenixrising47
Maybe if you got off your a$$, got a job, and had the brains to realize the Government Cannot Help You During a Hurricane, you'd have gotten out and survived.
28
posted on
06/26/2006 5:48:19 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll. 17,427+ snide replies and counting!)
To: phoenixrising47
At least the world didn't lose a good writer.
To: colorcountry
No sympathy here. Go get a job.
To: PJ-Comix; franksolich; Charles Henrickson; Lazamataz
Heart-wrenching poetry ping!
BTW, wonder if I.C. Howe is a woman. Woman + bad poetry = the prized "poetess" designation.
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posted on
06/26/2006 5:48:48 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(The wages of sin are death, but after taxes are taken out it's just sort of a tired feeling.)
To: phoenixrising47
I'm dying because I had two weeks notice and was still too stupid to get out of the way of a Category 5 hurricane.
32
posted on
06/26/2006 5:48:48 AM PDT
by
nonliberal
(Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
To: phoenixrising47; sure_fine
To: phoenixrising47
34
posted on
06/26/2006 5:48:50 AM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: phoenixrising47
35
posted on
06/26/2006 5:48:58 AM PDT
by
PilloryHillary
(Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.)
To: Xenalyte
People who want to listen to crap like this can tune into Link TV (aka CommieFink TV).
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posted on
06/26/2006 5:48:58 AM PDT
by
ARepublicanForAllReasons
(Mass immigration and mass indoctrination of illegals is the current marxist strategy to gain power.)
To: phoenixrising47
Well, quite an interesting post for your first day here. Tell me, are poor folk acquainted with the smell of ozone?
37
posted on
06/26/2006 5:49:00 AM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Rugged individualists of the world, unite!)
To: phoenixrising47
38
posted on
06/26/2006 5:49:03 AM PDT
by
Cannon6
To: phoenixrising47
I hear the helicopter, but have no strenth to go out on the porch. Good spelling don't cost nothing.
SD
To: phoenixrising47
40
posted on
06/26/2006 5:49:09 AM PDT
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
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