Competing with Katrina, a decade on
Same alphabet, H, I, J before Kay
Hurricane alley, hurricane season
Evolved faster than the America way
H, Harvey, the circulation master
Slow moving, but turbulent blood
Clotted arteries, drowned Texans faster
Stays still and empties the sky in flood
I, Irma, Wilder than la Douce
Prostitutes herself through the French virgins
Turning the Keys to Largo’s abuse
Florida’s left bank, rising, surging
M, Maria, they’ll never stop saying Maria
Through the decades they’ll take to pump
Puerto Rico dry, no votes, just baristas
Too few dead to trouble towel-throwing Trump
Shame they won’t get to P this year
In the shitholes of his own land
P. the Paris of fear
Changing climates be damned
Nothing that debt can’t clear
X, Y, Z already planned
Franschhoek, South Africa, January 2018
