Twas the night before Xmas on the Coast

THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS IN Biloxi --Gulf Coast The Night Before Christmas Our Town 2005 Twas the night before Christmas and all through the town Debris of all kind is stacked in a mound Houses are beat up, trees are not there The landscape is different and curiously bare Fences are gone and the dogs have got out Insurance agents are nowhere about Mold in its grandeur is lining the walls Inside the cabinets and all through the halls Moms are exhausted and daddies are spent They're paying their house notes and now paying rent FEMA is long gone, the Red Cross has split Searching for new towns disasters have hit The children are restless as they lay in their beds Troubled thoughts filling their heads Can Santa find them amid all the rubble Or will he think it's just not worth the trouble Then out of the night comes the sound of small hoofs Prancing and pawing atop the blue roofs Though Santa's landmarks were not where they'd been The shine of the trailers guided him in He managed somehow to deliver the toys To all the deserving good girls and boys And they heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight "It takes more than Katrinia to mess up this night

Awwwwww. That is so remarkable. And I imagine that alot of what is said in that poem is so true. Tammy

Did you write that? It's very, very good.... sigh.... Smoochies Arlies

Nope, I didn't write it, someone that I work with did. I thought it was cute though. Rhonda

Hey, I read that and it bought tears to my eyes. I wish you all the best Christmas that is possible. I know the people of the MS gulf coast are bigger than Hurricane Katrina. Love you all, Joyce