Talking From The Grave
Witnesses are dead. The crime is committed. Who has the motive? Who
benefits
the most is who we look for as a culprit, and whose fingerprints are
all
over this one? Ask that about 9-11. Ask that about Iraq and the lies of
Downing Street Memo. Ask that about a lot of things. But ask that about
New
Orleans, now. We lost a whole lot of poor Black people in Louisianna.
And
Barbara thinks these underprivileged people in the Superdome bussed in
from
a hell created by Katrina riding on Republican uncompassionate
conservatism
have it good now, and are taking advantage of Texas Hospitality.
Texas Hospitality is what New Orleans is experiencing. Body bags for
250000
and more coming. Texas Hospitality is what Iraq is experiencing. You
can ask
any Black man on Death Row in Texas, but if you do, also ask any
underpriviledged little Black child in Texas, "How hospitable is this
culture? Are you doing well? Is this a land of the free and the home of
the
brave? Is there opportunity here for you?"
And wait till more tax breaks for the rich and more war on terrorism
that we
created brings Texas Hospitality to USA completely.
If the spirits of New Orleans start to talk, George and the Big Easy in
the
Neocon's and Republican Uncompassionate Conservatives are going to go
to
hell in a hand basket.
I just bought a little voodoo doll at a Goodwill Shop for a dollar. He
is
five inches high, and has a blue dashiski bathrobe, and multicolor
beads on
his chest, with a blackface and sharp white teeth, mouth open in a
grimace.
His orange fethers stick out of his head and match a very scarey
painted
face and his yellow eyes.
It says VOODOO New Orleans on the wood base, and has a little sign
telling
the handler to stick pins in it, red for love, blue for protection, and
green for money.
If you stick black pins in this little figure,supposedly it is
NEGATIVE. I
put him outside in the back overnight, since I blew a fuse and burnt
out
lights when he was inside. This morning the back walls are falling down
in a
California hillside slide with architects and surveryors trying to
figure
out if the hill will fall on the houses here with the voodoo doll in
the
backyard.
frenchquarter.com
So if you want to think about it this way, if George Bush and his
friends
want to destroy the constitution and bill of rights and Declaration of
Independence, they have only the Founder Fathers like Jefferson and
Washington and Adams haunting them, and maybe a few million people who
cared
about the Great Experiment.
But if George Bush and the NeoCon-Republican party wants to steal from
the
poor to fatten up more themselves, and let 40000 people drowned in a
store
that was biblical in his wrath, while we send soldiers to Iraq to kill
more
than 40000, maybe, just maybe the wrath of Voodoo and dead souls will
come
and get him.
George Bush does not strike me as superstitious man, though he does
believe
in the power of a wrathful Old Testament God. But Nancy Reagan, just
like
George Bush, born on July 6th was very superstitious, and used
Astrology to
keep her husband "teflon" clean of scandel through her daily
consultations,
so maybe George is superstitious.
But it would not surprise me if the Good Old Boy in the White House is
having trouble sleeping as voodoo and scary dead people BY THE
THOUSANDS are
roaming around looking for their graves.
And if you awaken the dead in New Orleans, where Black Slaves brought
their
powerful African Gods to a Christian land where we held them in
manacles,
left them to die in the fields and treated them as property, then you
probably awaken something a little less nice than a White man in white
beard
reading to children My Pet Goat.
You probably have awaken some very scary things, George Bush, and
America
will now see the dead roaming on TV, floating with the feces of
rotting,
stifling poverty.
I wonder if fat Kstreet lobbyists of gun companies and military
providers
and fatter still women and men who steal our hard earned cash for roads
and
emergency management for big Washington dinners with sparkling
Wedgewood and
damask tablecloths are disturbed in their sleep? I wonder if the posh
workout rooms and the plastic surgery centers of downtown Washington
and
Wall Street in NewYork are paying attention to the drumbeat of anger
from
NewOrleans dead?
Is there a cry for better anti-depressants from the ever so rich as
they
feel poorly, anxious, as they see shadows of children on mortuary slab
tables, laid out to dry like fish?
Who knows what happens in the shadow worlds' of ghosts and the walking
dead?
Who knows who that is angry and dead will really help the good people
of
America rid ourselves of the people who stole our WhiteHouse? Maybe we
have
help from the other side, and we need to act and trust that the dead
don't
like George Bush and his Conmen in Congress anymore than we do.
Maybe Voodoo New Orleans is right, the newly dead have power, right
here in
RiverCity, right here with us the living. And if they do, let's channel
the
anger and get rid of the people who made the dead leave the world of
the
living, in New Orleans, and in Iraq.
- sofia debussy,
writer
(September 08, 2005; sausalito, CA) |
