MEET LEWIS COLYAR

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The following poem AMNO BLUES will be used for the opening of a documentary on Hurricane Katrina.

The documentary is being shown on local cable channel 12.

Alabama-Mississippi-New Orleans

   Lewis Colyar 

Somebody, somebody please lend me a tear

Please lend me a tear if you have one to spare

For Alabama, Mississippi, and New Orleans

I don’t know when or if I can repay, I need one for all I’ve seen

Mothers crying for their babies, Babies crying for their mothers

People watched all they owned being swept away with the flood waters

Katrina, Katrina such a lovely name to bring so much hurt

I stood upon the rooftop waving for help with my only shirt

That was my Mother, Father, Sister and Brother

You came and swept them away with raging winds and furious waters

Katrina, Katrina you left me with AMNO Blues

Alabama, Mississippi, and New Orleans

You didn’t stick around to hear what they called me on the national news

I thought I was a citizen until you came along but they said I was a refugee

I guess I knew they always harbored those feelings to some degree

They put me in a ball stadium and said it was better than what I had before

I’m on the fifty yard line, at least the outhouse had a door

Katrina, Katrina you left me with AMNO Blues

Alabama, Mississippi and New Orleans

Lewis Colyar

lewis_colyar@Yahoo.com

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