New Orleans

As the bad news trickled in
Many heard and many wondered
Of this place called New Orleans –
How? How could it have been,
That as the waters filled the streets,
The caveman came to New Orleans?

Through the flooded streets he led
Telling of how they would survive;
“Fend for yourself like I -” he said
“Follow heart and feel no mind.”
And as mortal desire and instinct grew
They exposed the true mankind

Many years he must have travelled
To take his place amid the floods
Revealing the modern man unravelled
And what lay under flesh and blood...

/used this as half a response for my reading portfolio article on the disaster in new orleans... go look for it on www.iht.com... "In the Big Easy, inured to the macabre"...