Hurricane Katrina Survival Celebration Verse in Honor of the Biloxi Vietnamese Boat People

(As my father often said, "...like unto that.")

Boat People: Haiku & Song
Dignified & Surviving Hurricane Katrina

--written at Biloxi, Mississippi, Vietnamese Boat People's
Community Celebration on September 30, 2006--

Dragon Men dancing
like fans on fire
waving to the people

Balloons float away
Will float down later
Balloons all over--
O Say Can You See

Ask the Dragon Drumming Boys
To tell you the
Name of their Drum
They say "It is a Drum."
(They said it was a Drum)
Said a Big Drum
Yeah!

gtm10/01/06