Treason

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Hellicane: Poets Respond to Hurricane Katrina

You turn your back\r\nand burn the ties\r\nto all thats right\r\nthat you defile\r\nbut stand despite\r\nthe bleeding truth\r\nwashed out in trash\r\nso mad with image\r\nand hollow with soul\r\nso stylized and grinning\r\nalone.\r\n\r\n[dressed--rehearsed--broadcasted--believed\r\nobsessed--perverse--God-plastic--disease]\r\n\r\nGet the cards & phones & debt\r\nfuel the fiend that hurls its lead\r\nwhere the money shines beneath the sand\r\nwhen faith aligns with bastard plans\r\nwhen his designs mean our demands\r\n& sacred seats are $old in sham\r\nthe aftermath - alarming, now double the bodies\r\non the global market of hard luck & big profits\r\nwhen most plow the course & a few fill their pockets.\r\n\r\n[nation--sex--color--creed\r\nlocation--reflects--other--breed]\r\n\r\n

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“Treason,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 23, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org./items/show/26307.