Fema V (Federal Empowerment (Of) Machiavellian Attitudes) Poem by Joe Rosochacki

They have till May 30th,2009 get themselves a home,
The flood victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The victims had been placed in FEMA trailers not a football dome,
If they do not abide by the law, then they will get evicted by court order subpoena.
It has been almost 4 ½ years since the entire ninth ward had been underwater,
Now people are ‘underwater’ with their existing mortgages.
There are shanty towns,
And now to be vacant trailer towns,
-would like to have your son or daughter,
Growing up in modern day concentration
-camps,
A makeshift ‘ghetto’,
Complete with no signs,
-very little access to clean water and food,
Most frightening,
-some people are an illness or pink slip away from this situation.
Many people would’ve done things differently if they could have foreseen from afar.
Now back to the victims of the hurricane,
What shall we do with them?
For it’s not their fault,
-that a storm the size of Texas came upon them.
Bail-outs keep happening for Wall Street and the Big 2 of the three.
Most of them are afloat while they had multiple failures.
At least the government should give victims the trailers and a car,
So the people can get to work and save for a house,
To be later paid by the government to contractors to build housing,
To get people out from their formaldehyde trailers,
As to prevent them from being infused with carcinogens,
Later to be paid by the US government as far as disability payments and Medicare.
I guess,
There is no good solution for this.

(5-24-09)