Breach by Richard Campanella

Author:Richard Campanella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2010-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Death of an American City, 2005

We are about to lose New Orleans.

Aerial view: too much swamp. Airport empty.

President Bush stood in Jackson Square and said, “There is no way to imagine America without New Orleans.”

Elysian Fields: a tangle of trees, cars covered in mud.

At this moment the reconstruction is a rudderless ship.

Armstrong Park: grass gone, ground scabbed.

It all boils down to the levee system.

St. Charles Avenue: streetcar gone, lampposts torn out by the roots.

People will clear garbage, live in tents

Lower Ninth: houses marked in the search for bodies, an O, an X.

stalling till the next hurricane season

Lakeview: Oriole Street, Lark Street: “We Tear Down Houses.”

leaving nothing but a few shells for tourists to visit like a museum.

Mid-City: street after street blue-roofed.

Total allocations for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terror have topped $300 billion.

Aerial view: evacuation does not make vacant.

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