Jimmy Reiss, a prominent local businessman and then-head of the (New Orleans) Business Council, told the Wall Street Journal that the city would come back in “a completely different way: demographically, geographically, and politically”, or he and other white civic leaders would not return.
The Bricks laid carefully by
Creole craftsmen demolished,
replaced with mock historical
stick and Tyvek by undocumented
refugees. Only half
as many homes built to make
the deliberate diaspora
permanent, disaster engineering
the post-Katrina demographic
demanded by men supplied by
oil field helicopters
on unflooded Audubon Place, heirs
of white collonaded plantations.
Washed Away
About Me
Mark Folse is a provincial diarist and aspiring minor poet from New Orleans. His past blogging adventures included the Katina/Federal Flood blog wetbankguide on blogspot.com which David Simon told NY Magazine was one of three blogs that helped inform Treme, and Toulouse Street–Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans, which once outranked the Doobie Brothers on Google Search. His work has appeared in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The New Delta Review, Metazen, New Laurel Review, Ellipsis, What We Know: New Orleans as Home, Please Forward, The Maple Leaf Rag IV, and A Howling in the Wires (which he co-edited).
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