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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: Barset

I hear dead people.


341 posted on 06/26/2006 5:49:10 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: Purrcival
You forgot - it's "poor", so it don't HAVE no stuff! Either that, or it was washed away.

Damn!

Ok, how about this - whatever stuff is there, I'll take as is, waterstains and all.

342 posted on 06/26/2006 6:19:28 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: phoenixrising47

I can only assume from your rambling that you have been out in the sun too long. Please seek help.


343 posted on 06/26/2006 6:58:17 PM PDT by EX52D (Life is a stage, and we are merely players...)
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To: dead

I've always wanted to beat the socialism out of Daschle, but your link is broken. :(


344 posted on 06/26/2006 8:10:14 PM PDT by Bars4Bill
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To: phoenixrising47
Is this you?

Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

345 posted on 06/26/2006 8:32:09 PM PDT by decal (Different Tagline Tomorrow!)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG
Forgot the best stanza (before C-I-L-L): "Slip through da window, break his neck,

Den his house I start to wreck.

Got no reason - What da heck?!"
346 posted on 06/26/2006 8:32:13 PM PDT by beezdotcom
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To: phoenixrising47

Did you know that 7 out of 10 suicides are committed right after writing really lame poetry?


347 posted on 06/26/2006 10:15:31 PM PDT by CaliGirlGodHelpMe
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To: phoenixrising47
Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
348 posted on 06/27/2006 12:07:37 AM PDT by IYellAtMyTV (Workday Forecast--Increasing pressure towards afternoon. Rum likely by evening.)
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To: phoenixrising47

Pathetic as hell. Go to a third world country if you think it's so bad here.


349 posted on 06/27/2006 4:18:08 AM PDT by RushCrush (Ban stupid people, not dogs!)
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To: Bars4Bill

That might have been a temporary problem. It's working now, for me at least.


350 posted on 06/27/2006 7:30:11 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: phoenixrising47

Wow, a poem by a child whose mother had never heard of a thing called "food stamps," a thing called a "homeless shelter" or a thing called a "soup kitchen." What kind of bloody moron are you that you think there are people starving to death out there at all, much less because of Bush's policies?


I almost wish they hadn't zotted you, because I'd LOVE to ask you to show me where an American family (or even a single child) has starved to death because their Mama couldn't buy food.


351 posted on 06/27/2006 12:56:14 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Tell ya brother, ya sister & yo mama too, 'cuz we're about to throw down & you know just what to do.)
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To: phoenixrising47

STBU


352 posted on 06/27/2006 12:57:42 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
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To: phoenixrising47

Wait. I did that wrong.

Sux2BU


353 posted on 06/27/2006 12:58:57 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
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To: phoenixrising47

Oh duh, I get it, it's a poem about Katrina.

Well, I'm still brighter than you, because I know that those people died for two reasons:

Long term reason--decades of welfare atrophying people's ability to care for themselves and also preventing them from having resources of their own. People with cars got out, people in projects didn't.

Short term reason--A mayor from your end of the political spectrum left hundreds of buses sitting in a parking lot and told the people of his city they were on their own. He ignored warnings and his city's evacuation plan and people died. Period, end of story, because if Nagin hadn't abandoned those people there wouldn't have been any refugees for FEMA to reach in the Superdome.


354 posted on 06/27/2006 1:02:52 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Tell ya brother, ya sister & yo mama too, 'cuz we're about to throw down & you know just what to do.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

That post made my day. I've been laughing about it ever since reading it at about 6am today.


355 posted on 06/27/2006 2:03:29 PM PDT by RushCrush (Ban stupid people, not dogs!)
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To: phoenixrising47; SeaDragon
Oh good grief... Sea, come look at this troll's . . .poem.

I swear the quality of troll lately is just rotten!

You just can't get good troll anymore.
356 posted on 06/27/2006 2:51:34 PM PDT by RikaStrom (The number one rule of the Kama Sutra is that you both be on the same page.../Exeter 051705)
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