The City That Care Forgot

I have arrived on your doorstep on short notice
Never liked waiting around for invitations
I might be staying around your town for a while
In the city that care forgot
My cheeks swelling up
With the soul of your city
The city descend into anarchy and helplessness
Looters plagued the streets,
Half of the city underwater,
and the other half is under indictment.
The saddest story ever told.

I know you didn’t ask for this
So make the best of it.
I looked into your eyes
With a ferocity that borders on the pathological
I will judge your American morals,
Police deserted,
The mayor dithered.
This is my promise
In this season of despair
This place
Once a national treasure
Broken into a thousand pieces
Will be
The saddest story ever told.

As bad as it sounds,
I depend on the kindness of strangers,
Your boats and buses
Full of men and women
With their generosity of spirit
Can’t give interference
Between me and the 932 people
Who perished
They stayed behind because of
Of “strong moral threads”

This is were it all starts
Hard times
You need to move forward
Despite hard times
Rebuild as a community
Forget hard times
Many of you cannot fathom a life outside of
Racial tensions and rampant self-indulgence.
I’ve come to your rescue
You didn’t ask for this
Stubborn that way, fiercely proud and independent people
Everybody loves their home,
I understand that.
But I don’t pity you.

That cathedral I spared
A community treasure
The heart and soul of the city.
My fierce winds,
A instrument of seemingly inexhaustible source
of melody and percussion
And swing
But I left it virtually untouched.
So make the best of it.

I am hope for all that are hopeless
I leveled the racial tensions
And made dark times.
When you strip away all the craziness and bars
and parades and music and architecture
The best thing about this city are it’s people.
This is your promise
It’s time to introduce yourselves…again.
New Orleans:
The city that care forgot,
The city that America forgot,
The city were hospitality and
generosity are seen with ferocity.
You may wonder why I chose you,
To descend into despair,
I bring you back home…
To a historic moment in history.
Never again…will you be
The city that care forgot.