The Heist of the Kidney Beans
By Elton Camp
In Pascagoula, Mississippi a burglar did grab
Several times from the drug store some Lortab
The Fred’s store manager very angrily griped
Although Lortab was the only thing he swiped
The pharmacist decided he would make a decoy
So a funny trick was what he decided to employ
Thief came but the pharmacist wanted to throttle
He found only kidney beans in the Lorbab bottle
(Note: true story)
What happend? Is the thought we have brewing
When she hit the beach con strewing
Things around this way and that
Grounded the homes and made them flat.
I lived in Pascagoula at one time
Before this wretch had made her mind
I lost few for I am single and broke
but my companions cry, sniffle, and choke
To think their families are there in pain
while we are out to sea is hard to constrain
Tempers flare and words are flames
Cursing each other and calling names
Once in port the fathers, husbands, fiances flee
To find their lost and broken family
Castles battered or taken by force
waterlog and drowned the family horse
Murder and rape have come after the destruction
Satans weaving his path of corruption.
Save the children is all I hope for
They deserve no part in heaven and hells war
Bodies lay strewn across the land
She had no favor woman or man
My last words hopefully burn your desire
To help the victims of this tragedy inspire!
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