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“Now We’re the People They Take Pictures Of”
A Harvey Refugee Reports:
When she with cats, papers, a change of clothes
And her old college bag to hold them all
Was one refugee among others in a dump truck
A Houston Airport Authority dump truck
Dieseling through rain and water and fear
With muck and mud sloshing across their feet
A woman next to her then laughed and said,
“Now we’re the people they take pictures of”
But there was no Capa to frame the scenes
Only oh-my-Godders with MePhone screens
(As the old saying goes, this isn't half the story. A young person of my acquaintance was caught in the flooding in Houston two years ago because she trusted her local government and the dam (and damn') authority when they told the people not to evacuate because they would only clog the roads.)
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