From 2005: POST-HURRICANE POEM about Katrina.

POST-HURRICANE POEM

As Orwell said, “some people are more equal

than others”.

Kanye West found that out when NBC censored him

for speaking the “inappropriate” truth about

George W. Bush not caring about black people.

He found it out again when he performed a song

at another telethon and the microphone just happened

to malfunction for part of the first verse.

The people of New Orleans found that out when they

were left to fend for themselves for days,

in overcrowded shelters and praying to God that someone

would take them off the roofs of their flooded homes

before death arrived.

Those of us watching TV at home have found out

that hard-news lapdog Ted Koppel was willing

to put just about all of the blame for Louisiana’s misery on the Governor

and the New Orleans mayor and let the White House skate away

from the emasculation of FEMA and the cutting of funds to strengthen the levees.

But Ted got to be embedded with the troops in Iraq-

and he can’t dare be rude to the White House

and lose Access to power.

We’re also finding out that a state with a Republican governor

-my former home state of Texas-

doesn’t have difficulty getting a more rapid

Federal response to hurricane threats.

Of course we can’t risk losing the refineries.

The refineries are important;

all the rest is merely collateral damage.

And we’re now finding out that the people from Houston

and the rest of South Texas that can afford to drive are

coming home to check on their property-defying a

“voluntary” order to return in orderly fashion.

Presumably, Federal troops won’t make them return

to their previous temporary residences.

Last of all, we found out that some moral cretin

I won’t name here credited God with clearing what he

termed undesirable people from New Orleans.

Perhaps he wants New Orleans to be rebuilt

as a gentrified theme park with the poor replaced by

grossly underpaid guest workers from Mexico

on 6-month-only work visas

and no African Americans

unless they’re people like Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, Larry Elder or Allen Keyes-

people who are eager to distance themselves from the poor

and suffering and say that the misery of the Underclass

is the sole fault of the Underclass.

Some people ARE more equal than others.

And global warming will be an important part

of the New World Order

determining who will live and who will die.