Elysium In Hell

Via Bloomberg, New Orleans Rocked by Explosions as Chaos Spreads

For this blogger, this disaster is deeply personal. A child's poem comes to mind. It's hardly Eliot but it's surely appropriate.

Somewhere deep within the gorges of hell
At depths even ocean had never known
I noted with satisfaction
That I wasn't in despair

All alone for millennia at a stretch
In darkness even night had never known
I noted with satisfaction
That I wasn't afraid

Beaten and broken by unseen hands
In pain even death had never known
I noted with satisfaction
That I wasn't destroyed

No thoughts emerged, no ideas grew
In a void even space had never known
I noted with satisfaction
That I wasn't insane

Keep your chin and hopes up, New Orleans.