Hurricane Prep
While you still have a working
Toilet piss so later you
Aren’t sitting in your urine
You will be too scared to shit
Look at your bedroom
Before it floods
After at the shelter on your
Cot it will keep you warm
Please pack a
Flashlight to see your
Reflection in the rising
Waters and not know it
Take your memories
Up to the roof
You may need a knife
To cut them out with
Have a bullhorn
To hail help
When you leave your
Your voice behind
If you exit your roof
By raft row gently
Down your street
Life is but a stream
–Ticky Kennedy
Reclusive Poet in Residence
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NOTE
THOSE SEEKING REFUGE IN ATTICS ARE STRONGLY URGED TO TAKE THE NECESSARY TOOLS FOR SURVIVAL. FOR EXAMPLE…THOSE GOING INTO ATTICS SHOULD TRY TO TAKE AN AXE OR HATCHET WITH THEM SO THEY CAN CUT THEIR WAY ONTO THE ROOF TO AVOID DROWNING SHOULD FLOOD WATERS CONTINUE TO RISE INTO THE ATTIC.
National Weather Service Warning, New Orleans/Baton Rouge Mon Aug 29, 2005
Hurricane Katrina, Day 6
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