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terri sent this to me:

THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS IN LAKE CHARLES
>> The Night Before Christmas
> >> Our Town
> >> 2005
> >>
> >>Tis the night before Christmas and all through the town
> >>Debris of all kind is stacked in a mound
> >>Houses are beat up, trees are not there
> >>The landscape is different and curiously bare
> >>
> >>Fences are gone and the dogs have got out
> >>Insurance agents are nowhere about
> >>Mold in its grandeur is lining the walls
> >>Inside the cabinets and all through the halls
> >>
> >>Moms are exhausted and daddies are spent
> >>They're paying their house notes and now paying rent
> >>FEMA is long gone, the Red Cross has split
> >>Searching for new towns disasters have hit
> >>
> >>The children are restless as they lay in their beds
> >>Troubled thoughts filling their heads
> >>Can Santa find them amid all the rubble
> >>Or will he think it's just not worth the trouble
> >>
> >>Then out of the night comes the sound of small hoofs
> >>Prancing and pawing atop the blue roofs
> >>Though Santa's landmarks were not where they'd been
> >>The shine of the trailers guided him in
> >>
> >>He managed somehow to deliver the toys
> >>To all the deserving good girls and boys
> >>And they heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight
> >>"It takes more than Rita to mess up this night!"