Day 23
Dverse
This could have been a scene from Rawanda
It beggars belief
The world's wealthiest nation
How could it come to this?
You don't think the government did not send
help because they were.....
Oh surely not!
They are citizens.
So it's true then...all those rumours
Has the new President made a difference?
I don't know...I don't live there!
Don't they have a bill of rights?
Somewhere
Hidden in bottom of a laundry basket
In the hall cupboard
Oh, Katrina was a tragic time and affected many lives. It's jarring to see the photos again, but it give your poem depth and we dare not forget ;)
ReplyDeleteThe answer to the question is yes and no, but it's not his fault...;)
Thank you for commenting on this. I have never forgotten the horror of those first images.And I am going to say this regardless of the consequences ....would the help have come sooner if the victims were white? Sorry, but that was the first thing I ( and everyone else) thought of when I first saw these photos.
ReplyDeleteIt does make one wonder when you think of ethical scandals that have occurred, such as the Tuskegee syphilis scandal (where black Americans were left untreated in order to track the progress of the disease).
ReplyDeleteHaunting images.. and a lot of things went wrong with Katrina. Your poetry just strengthen and ask important questions... I have not answers though
ReplyDeleteYou do ask an important question, one many of us has asked. It is unfathomable that we continue to devalue human life. The photos drive home the rending reality.
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