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By: Cedric McClester Better days lie ahead At least that’s what I thought he said While on a tour of New Orleans But what I think he really means Is things are better than before Yet we know he should do much more To rectify the situation Nola’s still part of our nation Better days lie ahead For the homeless not the dead Whose bloated bodies floated by In a way no one should die Cos FEMA wasn’t energetic Their response was just pathetic Showing up three days late Having victims sit and wait Better days lie ahead We’re tired of the rhetoric Just tell us when it’s getting fixed While his friends are getting paid He claims real progress has been made There’s little progress we can see Being made for you and me But he says things are going fine He’s either crazy or he’s blind Cos progress has been slow to date And people are still forced to wait For the help they’re supposed to get Most of them are at their end’s wit Trying to figure how to make it And some of them just plain can’t take it The levees are still inadequate And that don’t help us not one bit Who know when the next hurricane Will bring flood waters and torrential rain Better days lie ahead We’re tired of the rhetoric Just tell us when it’s getting fixed He comes down here for photo opps But hasn’t pulled out all the stops And mean while we’re still suffering And wondering where the hell he’s been With all the help he said we’d get That hasn’t materialized quite yet And we’re still waiting to rebuild To have our empty stomachs filled But all we get is rhetoric And that can’t buy us **** I don’t know and so I’m guessin But in this there must be some lesson That I must have missed in school Call me stupid or a fool Fool me once but not again Which begs to ask the question when Better days lie ahead We’re tired of the rhetoric Just tell us when it’s getting fixed Better days lie ahead At least that’s what I thought he said While on a tour of New Orleans But what I think he really means Is things are better than before Yet we know he should do much more To rectify the situation Nola’s still part of our nation Better days lie ahead For the homeless not the dead Whose bloated bodies floated by In a way no one should die Cos FEMA wasn’t energetic Their response was just pathetic Showing up three days late Having victims sit and wait (c) Copyright 2015, Cedric McClester. All rights reserved.
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Apr 25, 2015
Apr 25, 2015 at 12:41 PM UTC
BETTER DAYS
By: Cedric McClester Better days lie ahead At least that’s what I thought he said While on a tour of New Orleans But what I think he really means Is things are better than before Yet we know he should do much more To rectify the situation Nola’s still part of our nation Better days lie ahead For the homeless not the dead Whose bloated bodies floated by In a way no one should die Cos FEMA wasn’t energetic Their response was just pathetic Showing up three days late Having victims sit and wait Better days lie ahead We’re tired of the rhetoric Just tell us when it’s getting fixed While his friends are getting paid He claims real progress has been made There’s little progress we can see Being made for you and me But he says things are going fine He’s either crazy or he’s blind Cos progress has been slow to date And people are still forced to wait For the help they’re supposed to get Most of them are at their end’s wit Trying to figure how to make it And some of them just plain can’t take it The levees are still inadequate And that don’t help us not one bit Who know when the next hurricane Will bring flood waters and torrential rain Better days lie ahead We’re tired of the rhetoric Just tell us when it’s getting fixed He comes down here for photo opps But hasn’t pulled out all the stops And mean while we’re still suffering And wondering where the hell he’s been With all the help he said we’d get That hasn’t materialized quite yet And we’re still waiting to rebuild To have our empty stomachs filled But all we get is rhetoric And that can’t buy us **** I don’t know and so I’m guessin But in this there must be some lesson That I must have missed in school Call me stupid or a fool Fool me once but not again Which begs to ask the question when Better days lie ahead We’re tired of the rhetoric Just tell us when it’s getting fixed Better days lie ahead At least that’s what I thought he said While on a tour of New Orleans But what I think he really means Is things are better than before Yet we know he should do much more To rectify the situation Nola’s still part of our nation Better days lie ahead For the homeless not the dead Whose bloated bodies floated by In a way no one should die Cos FEMA wasn’t energetic Their response was just pathetic Showing up three days late Having victims sit and wait (c) Copyright 2015, Cedric McClester. All rights reserved.
Better Days was my take on the government response to Hurricane Katrina under George "Dubya" Bush's leadership, or lack thereof.
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Apr 25, 2015
Apr 25, 2015 at 12:41 PM UTC
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