Friday, November 4, 2011

Katrina Ode

EYE
WEEPING
EYES, RENT IN TWAIN, STRAIN TO SEA
WIND WEARY MAGNOLIA TREES AND
WYNTON BURRS REIGNING FREE
SEE ICY SEAS FACE CLIFFS
WHY RELAX MOON EYES
DRIVE WEARY STRAIN WAN
RACE LEFT A NEST A FELT SEA
WE SAW NEW DABS WAX & WAN
BE IT TO THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE
WYNTON WIND AND EYES RIVE TO BE
WEEPING 
EYE

Magnolia is the state tree of Louisiana.  Wynton is Marsalis, the jazz musician from New Orleans.  Race reference is the aftermath of Katrina shown on TV with seas of African American faces herding out of a cesspool stadium where they sought shelter.  'Dabs' is like a jazz note or as if a paint brush stroke on canvas, etc.  The star is six pointed, as if the conditions in New Orleans were of the devil or as the result of poor infrastructure for the nation's poorest resulting in dire consequences and the spotlight comment that the President at the time didn't like black people: which hints racism or evil or of the devil and hence, a six pointed star.  Finally, the 'Katrina Ode' is composed of pseudo-anagrams from an original phrase thinking of the 'wide cliffs of Dover.'  The phrase was "see icy seas face cliffs, why relax moon eyes."

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