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prelude 1. 10:45 a.m. sept. 11/wtc 2. i live so far 3. Cut Up
4. soot means something 5. in the ash-covered new york streets
6. world trade center 7. looking around 8. new times 9. A moment
later 10. She 11. there's nothing 12. nothing is always
prelude
this is how it all begins, this sudden madness --
. . . . . . .8:45 a.m. EDT: A hijacked passenger jet, American
Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts, crashes into
the north tower of the World Trade Center, tearing a gaping hole
in the building and setting it afire. . . . .
9:03 a.m.: A second hijacked airliner, United Airlines Flight
175 from Boston, crashes into the south tower of the World Trade
Center and explodes. Both buildings are burning. . . . . .
9:43 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon,
sending up a huge plume of smoke. Evacuation begins immediately.
10:05 a.m.: The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses,
plummeting into the streets below. A massive cloud of dust and
debris forms and slowly drifts away from the building. . . .
. .
10:10 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 93, also hijacked, crashes
in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh. .
. . . .
10:28 a.m.: The World Trade Center's north tower collapses
from the top down as if it were being peeled apart, releasing
a tremendous cloud of debris and smoke. . . . . - CNN
and then . . .
10:45 a.m. sept. 11/wtc
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--markk
2.
i live so far from it all
and yet so close
this world is full of paradoxes
as we are ourselves
paradoxes
it's full
of love and hate
beauty and terror
hope and despair
as we all are
full of this
the invisible enemy is
judgement and fear
but words fail
int the face of terror
--panta rhei
3.
Cut Up
based on watching the news
and letting my mind race too quickly
an American tragedy
will the dawn break with world war 3?
act of war by madman
flights diverted to Canada
planning and logistics
how much planning went into this?
3 flights from one airport
and a woman with a microphone in a fuschia suit
cowering behind a parked car
zealot terrorist pigs
and the world blows up
every reporter out
no hair and makeup crew today
this is life without cue cards
worst fears of officials realized
stay away from airports
FBI news conference at noon
Astros-Giants game tonight cancelled
closed
evacuated
non-essential personal
am I essential?
when can I go home?
University of St. Thomas Closed
HOV lanes opened outbound
home
home
home
comparisons to Pearl Harbor
number of casualties could be in thousands
chunks of concrete falling all around
ISD parents may pick up students if they wish
moans and groans
U.S. International Airports closed
continental flights supsended
voluntary evacuation
amateur video
sent home
can I go home now?
body parts all over West Street
red cross hotline
want my blood?
50 flights still in air
Johnson Space Center closed
plastic bottled water
empty coffee mugs
I don't want to move
but I want to go home.
--carly kocurek
4.
Soot means something
when falling like snow
over the screams
and perhaps the silences of a city.
For what it means
I still do not know,
searching for clues
from a background spraying specks
of world war onto a beat up t.v.,
whatever it is distracting my eye,
a tearful police officer, a burning building,
or your bloodstained white t-shirt.
This timeless day of Fall
will stumble away into the night
making a story real as history.
--badwine&cheapbooze
5.
in the ash-covered new york streets,
lovesweep, the response
to titantic death & heartache,
lovesweep offered up without
judgement, to hearts hardening
in honest reaction i call upon
lovesweep, in the ruins of the
world trade center i offer
the suture of my soul in perfect
lovesweep, in washinton d.c.
i give birth to lovesweep undeterred,
in the skies above this nation
i implore lovesweep, on nervous
borders lovesweep, souls hovering
over flaming ruins, in jet wreckage
laying on pennsylvania's fields
the perfection of lovesweep,
the response you can't kill,
lovesweep open & unresisting,
& where sinister minds planned
vulturous attacks they would
welcome hate in return,
but i can offer only lovesweep
in great cosmic waves that
no one can burn, bury, blow-up
the om of lovesweep the WE
--markk
6.
world trade center
you stood proud for so long
now you have fallen into rubble
bringing down thousands of innocent lives
thru no fault of your own...
what ignorant beings
could possibly conceive
of such a horrible scenario?
this was no military retaliation
against uniformed personnel
only uniformed police (58)
and uniformed firefighters (200+)
not to mention the possible
50,000 innocent workers inside
add to that the thousands that visit
and we have tragedy of enormous magnitude
that boggles anyones very minds.
and let us not forget the pentagon
with hundreds dying for what?
terrorism is a terrible sickness
that begs for recognition of stupidity
that begs for redemption from a religion
that answers to make believe gods
that must lie puzzled at what has happened
new world, new times
must change behaviors
of fear and ignorance
or madness will not end.
--cecil
7.
looking around....stars exchange places
with grey lit dawn
where are my friends?
where are the voices
of comfort, rhythm, insight and song
i need to make contact
share smiles, tears and action
where are you?
listen well
you'll hear me
singing your hallowed names
i love you
may the day bring reason
to meet again
--judih
8.
new times
where this doesn't happen
to NY towers, to Sears edifice
to SF bank
or Israeli conclave
Palestinian huddle
cowardice stonger than words
and buildings, it would appear
but not spirits, flying
proud and united, for once
a divided congress sings
and weeps together on
important steps
and one cannot help but cry along
while across the world
people feast with
specially made cakes
in honor of this tragedy
in celebration
so ironic
when the stanchions of hope
of the 20th century
the mighty skyscraper
and Kitty Hawk progeny
prove the undoing
of the 21st
a new world,
without these horror
--subalias
9.
A moment later
The news had passed
on.
We felt glad to be alive.
But we somehow
suspected someone
was to blame,
Somewhere,
And that that's the
whole story
of history-
Someone to blame,
Somewhere.
I wasn't taught this lesson in school.
On the television screen
I didn't see America burning
I didn't see the fire,
I did see the clouds though
I take my reality with a grain of salt.
This is going to be hard,
But you know
When the mighty fall,
it's got to be hard
If hard is how you take it.
--hercules
10.
She
Whispering dreams
To her window
To the sky in its muted
Brilliant shades
Of blue
Matching the lighted shaft
In her twilight eyes
Mystified
By the complexity
Of the clouded script
Written lightly
Fluctuating
Like a thought
Ever-changing,
Its calm ocean of mist
Fades to gray
As the eyelid blinds
Are drawn
--starryclaire
11.
there's nothing that will ever
be the same there's nothing
that will ever be the same
there's nothing that
will ever be
the same
there's
nothing
that will
ever be
the same
there's nothing
that will
ever be
the
same
nothing
no
thi
ng
--doreen perei
12.
nothing is always the same
nothing is always
nothing is
nothing
no
thing
is the same..always
YES?
NO?
OUI?
--dajazzcat
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(note: these poems originally appeared on www.litkicks.com.
they are used here by permission of the authors and with the
consent of www.litkicks.com.)
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