"Will ALL the saints ever
Come marching home?"
So so sad...
Its well written Mani. The poem conveys the pathos of the situation 
adequately.

--- In [email protected], M Suri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Katrina
> 
>  
> 
> Katrina blew into town,
> 
> A hurricane,
> 
> High fives!
> 
> All aground,
> 
> Blew the South down,
> 
> Drowning it,
> 
> The strange gumbo
> 
> Of death, disease,
> 
> Oily decadence,
> 
> Smelled rank
> 
> In putrid, dank waters 
> 
> Washing through
> 
> Streets and attics,
> 
> Clasping corpses 
> 
> In the cutting embrace
> 
> Of death's sickle.
> 
>  
> 
> The jazz died,
> 
> The levees cleaved,
> 
> Wet, soggy,
> 
> The saints went slogging out 
> 
> through the floods
> 
> Leaving ghosts in old neighborhoods.
> 
>  
> 
> The notes are sour for now;
> 
> Will the new South rise and then
> 
> Blow the sax, trumpet, pound the honky-tonk,
> 
> Let the good times roll
> 
> For ALL?
> 
> Will ALL the saints ever
> 
> Come marching home?
> 
>  
> 
> ©  Mani Suri, Saturday, September 10, 2005




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