Floodkids
One of the Floodkids was telling me
That if he felt the same way he did
The day he got his namesake
He'd drop what he was doing
And head somewhere
Dry and safe to stay dry and safe
Said he wont be fooled twice
Once,
Rain drained away
And they finally fixed the bridge
But the Floodkids stuck around
Damp and washed out with the new title
And its entitlements
Not to let anyone forget the time
That a whole history of progressive comfort
Was drowned out in less than an hour
How quickly we lost sight
Of our shoes socks ankles knees legs cars friends dogs
Supersaturated
Their socks were soaked!
Its a real tear jerker
And medical journals and practicioners would call it post traumatic
But I heard they perfer the term
Water damaged
I imagine it would be distressing
To see roads become rivers
And fields turn into seas
But they stand tall despite the water weight
Their insistence on remembering
The water damaged more than just the mental
One Kid’s car got flattened by a tree
He did what the Man asked him to do
And then they didn’t help him replace it
In a way, this still hurts the head, mine at least
They talk about the Floodkid never to be
An everyman who injured himself the morning of
And was carted off, unknowingly escaping the Deluge
The work he injured himself doing
Was done a few hours later
In the natural course of things
"A Labor Hero"
The Floodkids want to cast him in Bronze
The Floodkids hang around, gazing skyward
On the lookout for overcast
Anticipating a deja vu
The feeling felt
Was it Jul 9th or Feb 17th?
So they can drop everything and head uphill
But maybe they just dont want to work
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/821dddf2db7847ecad6b2424f206f0cd
https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/07/10/deadly-flash-flooding-sweeps-through-new-york-state/
Floodkids
One of the Floodkids was telling me
That if he felt the same way he did
The day he got his namesake
He'd drop what he was doing
And head somewhere
dry and safe to stay dry and safe
Said he wont be fooled twice
Once,
Rain drained away
And they finally fixed the bridge
but the Floodkids stuck around
Damp and washed out with the new title
and its entitlements
Not to let anyone forget the time
that a whole history of progressive comfort
was drowned out in less than an hour
How quickly we lost sight of our
shoes socks ankles knees legs cars friends dogs
Supersaturated
Their socks were soaked!
Its a real tear jerker
and medical journals and practitioners would call it
post traumatic
but I heard they prefer the term
water damaged
I imagine it would be distressing
To see roads become rivers
And fields turn into seas
But they stand tall despite the water weight
Their insistence on remembering
The water damaged more than just the mental
One Kid’s car got flattened by a tree
He did what the Man asked him to do
And then they didn’t help him replace it
In a way, this still hurts the head, mine at least
They talk about the Floodkid never to be
An everyman who injured himself the morning of
And was carted off, unknowingly escaping the Deluge
The work he injured himself doing
Was done a few hours later
In the natural course of things
"A Labor Hero"
The Floodkids want to cast him in Bronze
The Floodkids hang around, gazing skyward
On the lookout for overcast
Anticipating a deja vu
The feeling felt
Was it Jul 9th or Feb 17th?
So they can drop everything and head uphill
But maybe they just dont want to work