2005-09-06 - 7:38 p.m.
saying her name brings something out of me
she's like a woman who took my lover away
she selfishly stole and didn't care who she hurt
she took the soul of the city
the laugh
the dance
took the music
and the melody
the tapping of bottlecaps
on concrete
bright feathers
and brass bands
turned it into ugly
damaged
and dirty
the levees broke
her embryonic waters washed over us
and birthed a new thing
that saddens me
pain
and death
are all that is left
as her fury subsides
i cry
droplets of saline fall into the river
that flows through the front door
and out the back
my tears seem insuficient
and i watch helplessly
as the memories float away
in the muddy
poisonous water
