"This great city will rise again" said Mr. Bush

(photo: Ted Jackson/Times-Picayune)

We're coming to save you New Orleans
M. Russo 9/10/05

We're coming to save you New Orleans
We're coming with Caterpillars
to kill all your home-infected disease
to plow under your maladjusted debris
and all your wheezing poverty

We're coming to save you New Orleans
We're coming with our Six Flags waving
to pave more ground for Wal-Mart savings
And lay new track for Olive Trees and Outbacks (decorated, of course, with a creole twist)

We're coming to save you, Syncopated Sporulater
of Ragtime, Jazz and Boogie-Woogie
to cook up your crawfish and rice 'n red beans
as novelties
on sale at Dis-Neyleans

We're coming to save you people, you po' sodden souls
but y'all need to co-operate
so we can relocate
this messy problem of dead weight residue
reproportionate this crazy French-Spanish-African stew --
It's high time to chlorinate this city's funky mold
so we're burying your waterlogged ramshackle blues
and rolling you into the surplus labor fold, in the nearby states...

oh...except for those of you employed at Harrah's
where we'd still like tourists to be able to celebrate
fresh clean reproductions of the New Orleans of old.

see: http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/4842.php