New Orleans
By Tatiana Pahlen

Immorality? What is it?
Can you define the desire of
a human-being in a desperate bid
chosen to endure depression?

Save your bullet, shooter
poor, needing bread, crazed from hunger;
don't call him a looter, his son is dead,
he is scoring comfort.

Life has changed since Katrina the Great
Acquired his quarters;
Nothing left but those dreadful debts
of a once homeowner.

The city is quiet, mourning the dead,
compared to ground zero —
a vicious blow leveled New Orleans' land;
her jazz bands not spared.

When nature is maddened, whose to blame
Andrew, Francis, Charley,
Ivan the Terrible, Katrina the Great?
Environment?
It's time for all to repent!

September 6, 2005

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