It’s a poem that seems to be about a past lover, but it makes applicable to a city that is still in ruins because of Ford’s background with Hurricane Katrina. She even says that, “Writing about life in [New Orleans] was inherently political, even if the poem was simply about water, wards, tainted fish or walks through the streets” (Ford 216). This poem becomes political because of the anger and the sadness that she feels due to the American government’s lack of help for the city in its time of need. It causes Ford to place distrust in America’s ability to protect its citizens from such disasters as
It’s a poem that seems to be about a past lover, but it makes applicable to a city that is still in ruins because of Ford’s background with Hurricane Katrina. She even says that, “Writing about life in [New Orleans] was inherently political, even if the poem was simply about water, wards, tainted fish or walks through the streets” (Ford 216). This poem becomes political because of the anger and the sadness that she feels due to the American government’s lack of help for the city in its time of need. It causes Ford to place distrust in America’s ability to protect its citizens from such disasters as