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listening to the levee board senate hearings remember that the water sustains us,   that the water fed us             that we walked along those levees watching the sun set beyond the lake       that our legs were planted there on the grass at that vantage point             and we never imagined what even the water                                                 could not have known remember that we wanted to live by the water             remember that the river held us in the crook of its arm                                                 and that the lake backed against us that we lay down with apparent abandon among             the canals and the outlets                         and were submerged in our belief                                                 that it would do no harm we lived our lives                         our beautiful, short, poor lives                                                 and the water came for us because water has a memory             and longs to hold in its deepest chasms all that we held dear                         remember that the water             had no agenda, no contract, no deficit or surplus,                           no election, no seat of power to contend with remember that the only water that sat in on the levee board hearings                                                   in Washington D.C.                                     was in small clear glasses                         that sat before the men and each was lifted to wet his lips and throat and did no harm                                                 as it flowed down into the core of them they explained why the water came for us                         and why no one was                                                 responsible and that the water did not answer                         is clearly because water                                                 has a memory and                                                             will remember             as will we                                                                                                               as will we Megan Burns

 
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