I Caught a Flashback

I am standing at the Metro, selling Street Sense,
When a Marine comes up the escalator.
“Good morning sir.
Have a blessed day,” I say.
“Would you like to make a donation for a paper?”
“I would,” he says, “but I have no money.”
Then he asks, “Are you hungry?”
“Not really,” I answer.
“But I’ll take something for later.”
So he goes into his book sack.
And that’s when I catch a flashback …
When I see that food.
Who woulda thought it would be
Beef sauce and spaghetti?
The one they dropped from the helicopter.
Boom! Boom! It hit the floodwater.
We took it to people who couldn’t get nothin’ to eat.
Cornbread, Ritz crackers, green peas,
I tell him thanks!
And he said, “Why you say thanks so good like that?”
I say, “I’m a Katrina survivor. I caught a flashback!”
This was God working a blessing.