New Orleans

New Orleans 
New Orleans 
A time of sorrow at least it came 
[by wind] and not by hand of man 
to give ones life is hard enough 
to lose a city by God's command 
at least it's not so rough 
the way of life at your command 
is flooded. 

Charles Robert Hice 

Copyright ©2006 Charles Hice
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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