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Then this next one
is, again, pretty

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concrete as to a social issue.

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It's about the aftermath
of Hurricane Katrina.

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And hopefully, most of you
know about Hurricane Katrina,

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which was a terrible storm that
hit New Orleans in probably

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around 2002--

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I think I have my days off
a little bit-- in five?

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Oh my goodness, 2005.

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And what happened to
that city and the way

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we reacted as a
country to it, it

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was-- so I called this
poem "New Orleans."

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"Barges flow over the city.

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The river carries
the port to Slidell.

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Down Claiborne, vessels
shake, resurrect

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the poor, unwashed, each
holding his own ticket to fear.

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Inundated, nowhere to go,
exposed as the cargo of dollars

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wallows in smug
rhetoric, and sinks

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the black menace, the
crippled, the huddled.

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As homes drown in lunar sunsets,
aging mannequins and neon

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infants appear from
nowhere, astonished

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at the ignorance and neglect
revealed in the drying flood."

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