RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: AMERICAN POLITICS
Lowering Crime in New Orleans
The murder rate is down
Violent crime? The same
Crime is lower all around
There’s no one left to blame
How did this miracle happen?
Did they summon the National Guard?
It happened in the way back when
Katrina slammed N’Orleans hard
The poor folk of the Big Easy
Were scattered far and wide
Few returned to their poverty
Their old haunts were gentrified
The Guard was never needed
They spread the crime around
A new way of life was seeded
And planted on higher ground
So if you want to change your city
Let New Orleans show the way
Just reinvent it nice and pretty
Let the wealthy come to play
Round up all the poor folks
And scatter them around
Laugh like it’s a private joke
Reinvigorate your town
