I died because I'm poor. (Compassionate mod kicks in a penny for the funeral)

Poet | I.C. Howe

[phoenixrising47]

I died because I'm poor.

I'm floating in the water. My Mom is accross from me. Mosquitos swarm around us. They're our only friends.

I'm in the United States. Of, America. Not Vietnam. I'm not on T.V. It's really me. I'm dying 'cause I'm poor.

Mama's eyes are fluttering. Like a butterfly. This is real. Please, people. Not a photo op. I'm dying 'cause I'm poor.

I spit on Mama's lips, to give her moisture. Her face turns cold. I'm crying 'cause I'm poor.

Oh, Mama! Dear sweet Mama. I wail into the sky. Where's that promising Bush? Mama didn't have to die.

Now it's my turn. I hear the helicopter, but have no strenth to go out on the porch. I'm dying 'cause I'm poor.

I hear the rotors of the blades. I'm hugging Mama. Get her warm. Oh, Mama, it's come to this. We're dying 'cause we're poor.

I reach out to the men. And suddenly it's black. My life's film has broke. It broke 'cause I'm poor.

It broke 'cause I'm poor. It didn't have to be. We did better in the Tsunami. We did better in the war.

We died 'cause we're poor

by I.C. Howe

[Xenalyte]

Shut UP.

[tiredoflaundry]

Oh brother!

[CholeraJoe]

IBTZ.

[Kozak]

IBTZ

[ClearCase_guy]

Did you write better poetry when you were alive?

[torchthemummy]

In before the zot!

[Xenalyte]

Check this out. It's supposed to be, like, poetry or something.

[Not now, Not ever!]

IBTZ?

[litehaus]

by I.C. Howe

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Sure in hell ain't I.F. Stone---Bag of hammers here....

[Verbosus]

"I died because I'm poor."
Well, maily because you aren't too bright.

[Kozak]

WAHWAHWAHWAHWAHWAH.

[Brilliant]

"I hear the helicopter..."





Not too surprising.

[colorcountry]

You're dead. Go back to wherever it is you belong.

[dagoofyfoot]

Dork!

[Bikers4Bush]

Actually you died because you're mother didn't listen to the warnings and try to get you out and because your mayor chose to let school buses get flooded instead of use them to move folks out of town.

Not because you're poor.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

This is about Katrina? Yeah, and all Bush's fault? The idiot left out Nagin, Landreau and Blanco, didn't he?

What a drivelish waste of pixels.

[DoctorMichael]

Get a job.

[from occupied ga]

It broke 'cause I'm poor.

So get a job deadbeat.

[marvlus]

I'm sorry to hear you're dead. IBTZ.

[Kozak]

More like I. B. Lame

[Son Of The Godfather]

You died because you were ZOTTED!

[boxerblues]

It's supposed to be, like, poetry or something

Oh its something alright.

[ArrogantBustard]

IBTZ

[syriacus]

Your dying because you had a selfish Mayor, who left town to get his family to safety, but forgot to send out the schoolbuses for the poor people.

[Mercat]

IBTZ?

[Pistolshot]

IB4TZ

[theDentist]

Maybe if you got off your a$$, got a job, and had the brains to realize the Government Cannot Help You During a Hurricane, you'd have gotten out and survived.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

At least the world didn't lose a good writer.

[television is just wrong]

No sympathy here. Go get a job.

[Xenalyte]

Heart-wrenching poetry ping!

BTW, wonder if I.C. Howe is a woman. Woman + bad poetry = the prized "poetess" designation.

[nonliberal]

I'm dying because I had two weeks notice and was still too stupid to get out of the way of a Category 5 hurricane.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

I smell a ZOT coming!

[P-40]

Just say no to drugs...

[PilloryHillary]

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

People who want to listen to crap like this can tune into Link TV (aka CommieFink TV).

[Hegemony Cricket]

Well, quite an interesting post for your first day here. Tell me, are poor folk acquainted with the smell of ozone?

[Cannon6]

What a crock!

[SoothingDave]

I hear the helicopter, but have no strenth to go out on the porch.

Good spelling don't cost nothing.

SD

[USNBandit]

Adios, troll.

[robertpaulsen]

Get a job.

[Sloth]

I hope this was you:

[PeteB570]

No, you died because you were stupid.

[sitetest]

In before the zot.

[Peter W. Kessler]

I don't see how.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Related to I.P. Daily?

[Perdogg]

[50sDad]

I am a angst-filled teenager.

I wrote this for a school anthology.

I hope it sounds depressing.

My public education cost more than almost anywhere in the world.

I got it for free.

I live in the greatest nation of the world...

But I won't write about the billions killed by Communism...

About the billions killed by socialist dictators...

About horrible conditions in other nations where warlords kill for fun.

Nope, I'm going to whine about microscopic problems in the greatest nation on earth.

Because my Leftist, liberal, hate-filled teacher

will give me an "A" for that.

[Madame Dufarge]

Since you're dead anyway, can I have your stuff?

[ArrogantBustard]

I died because I'm poor STUPID.

There. That's better.