The New Verse News: N'O'L'NS' DROWNING

by Bill Costley

Breached levee walls

bare the grim truth:

NO safespaces 4

desperate people

dying b4 relief

comes 2late,

thanx2Rove

&Duby@

Bill Costley serves on the Steering Committee of the San Francisco chapter of the National Writers' Union.

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