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Underneath the water, the storm didn't sound like nothing.

Just kept coming on and on.

When the rain started, I put on my spaghetti helmet so my head wouldn't get

But that didn't do a bit of good.

I went down to the bottom of the ocean where the dead people go.

On the last day of the storm, people came pouring in like never before.

It seemed like the whole city was coming down to the bottom of the ocean.

I could tell he was different.

He weren't dead at all.

His eyes were living, not just blink like everyone else down here.

Look out at that ocean, that sky,

the sea, the birds, wild and wicked

out in the sea. Is there a God who can deliver us

from the chaos of nature?

Listen to me, my baby. It was worse then.

They didn't know if he was in pain or just feeling nothing.

I try and think about how the storm and all these people dying was all a part of

God's plan.

But mostly, I just stare up to the water hoping I can have one last look at

them.

When his body washed up on the shore, they thought he was some type of devil.

They said it was a sign.

God was mad and things was only going to get worse.

Preachers say you come from hell.

There's nothing to talk to you.

My dad had been sneaking out and watching him build while he should have

church. He didn't care if he was the devil or the Pope of Rome.

When he saw that boat, man, he must have just about gone wild.

Whenever he get wild, he go find his friend Sergeant Major.

Sergeant Major was not allowed over for supper.

My Aunt Caroline was always talking how he ain't going nowhere except the

bottle.

Don't you come near my fucking car.

Some of you come around painting a shiny picture, I always end up looking like a

dime in a goat's ass. I'm tired of it.

What if I told you I could have to get your boy back?

In the Bible, we read of a city of sinners.

And what happened to the sinners?

God killed them.

He washed them from the face.

What are they doing?

That Sunday, no one showed up in church but the Reverend and the Holy Ghost.

Hello?

They wanted to know if they could have church on the boat.

What the hell?

Flood came.

My wife couldn't swim.

Busted a hole through the ceiling to float this big bed.

Blew on top.

Bed's blessed.

If you can put this bed on this raft, I can put my car on here too.

Put your car on?

How you gonna get your car here? You ain't even got no wheels, Sarge. I ain't

leaving it.

You're gonna love that car.

I'm gonna bring my mom a bathtub.

You know where it is?

They brought whatever they wanted to bring, whatever they still had.

Everybody had their thing, that thing that made it through the storm that had

some luck in it, that may help find the person just by its own magic.

Don't you let them say this.

Don't you let them say this.

take nothing to get people crazy on my block.

They throw a party just because their door's out and they need to cheer up.

So when people found out they were coming for us, man, you better stand

Reverend Carlton didn't have no wife or baby.

He'd tell us how the church was his home and God was his family and we were all

his children to watch over.

He didn't have anyone now.

There wasn't any school, any church.

All that was gone.

The parks.

The docks where you could run around with your friends grabbing the fish

were catching.

I'd be splashing down a sidewalk, washing my hair beneath the drain pipes

the heat was up, laying in the grass and talking to myself while my dad waited

for the train to pass.

Waiting to go home.

I just hope he knows where he's going.

No.

That boat just drifted.

The water just took them where it pleased.

It's been so long since I seen that man come down here for his girl.

I started to wonder if I had just made him up.

Thank you.

I'm always asking my dad how that boat knew to go down right there, right over

us.

He'd laugh and say, God did it.