Thursday, June 5, 2014

Hurricane Season

I don't know who wrote this, so for now, I'll credit it to "Anonymous".
 
 
Hey, y'all.  Happy hurricane season!  (June 1 till November 30).  Here's a big ole 'fuck you' to State Farm Insurance and the entire insurance industry for stealing even more money from hard-working middle class folks.  We got a letter a few months ago saying we're no longer covered if our home receives damage during a 'named hurricane'.  I cussed out everyone I could find while they hemmed and hawed.  It's yet another government scam to take our money and give us nothing in return.  I still have to pay several thousand dollars a year for insurance, but I'm just not covered pretty much half the year.  Hell, about the only time a person in Louisiana has damage to their home is during hurricane season!  And for the record, I'm nowhere near the coast.  (Phew, I feel better...steppin' off my soap box for now.....)
 
I have searched and searched for the origin of that poem.  I don't know where I got it or when, but found it glued into one of my old journals, so I'm sure I found it somewhere on the Internet---or not.  I do still have my trusty typewriter, but I haven't drug it out in too many moons to count.  I love, love, love this poem or beginning of a poem.  I, too, was born in the heart of hurricane season (on the full moon in the sign of Moonchild) and truly wish I had written this, but I didn't.
 
If you wrote it or know who did, please let me know. 
 
xo,
Marion
 
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It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning. ~Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter XLII
 
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The wind shows us how close to the edge we are. ~Joan Didion
 
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2 comments:

erin said...

i don't know. to me it just seems plain backwards to have to pay for insurance but not be insured. it's kind of a wtf moment. (truly hope that kind of devastation stays far from you, marion. far from everyone.)

love that you have poems captured from somewhere. is that your typing then? :)))

no idea where it might be from. sorry friend.

xo
erin

Kelly said...

Seriously, Marion?? What a rip-off!!

I just knew you had written that poem when I read it. I like it and it sounds like you! :) I like the Dickens quote, too.

Here's to the 2014 hurricane season being a non-event.