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DaRk AnGel : Why Home : August 2006 : 365 Days Later....

365 Days Later....

It was a year ago now when the angry winds and violent rains came into the city I grew up in. The city I love.. The city that has so much secret history about me that stays unshared..

And it breaks my heart to see so little has been done to so much of her. Her heart beats faintly desperate to survive..

The developers are hungrily eyeing the land and want to convert poor peoples houses into million dollar condos, and the poor people are all over the country still being poor. They want to go home.. To have things as they were.

It was the poor people that made New Orleans. They brought the culture, the food, the voodoo, the magic, the deep and dark world into the city. Without them New Orleans will morph into another Las Vegas. Just a place. A place with no magic or culture, a huge tourist trap with nothing else to offer but drugged strippers, and too old jazz music players playing the same pieces they have for 50 years. The best food originated from the pots of those who had little. Buster Holmes restaurant is a place that many will never hear of. But I ate their often. One dollar for red beans and rice and sausage and the crispiest French bread you could find.

In New Orleans my blood flowed on the streets. In New Orleans my heart was broken for the first time. In New Orleans I hung with the people of the road, as poor as the rest of them, but never knowing I was poor. We were rich in so many ways. In New Orleans I raged as did Katrina. In the end though I only destroyed little pieces of myself.

New Orleans will never be the same. It cannot be. And if you have not lived there, and loved the city, you can never understand the loss. As New Yorkers still look for the twin towers, I still seek the heart of New Orleans..

But Katrina performed a transplant.

Now New Orleans is alive.. But the soul is gone.. Forever to be a memory

I am sad

So very sad.