on a Tuesday morning
four plains were hijacked
and crashed, two into
two towers, one into
the Pentagon, and one
in a field in Pennsylvania
now, you won't believe this
but there are people who
believe that these crashes
were a conspiracy, that they
were orchestrated to fulfill
an agenda of terror
from within
that's what it's like
in the New Fade, connecting
dots that aren't there because
that's what you want to believe
about the world around you,
ignoring devastation, mocking it
and all the lives lost in favor
of ludicrous self-serving
conclusions whose only
connection to the real world
is how they matches your politics
so if you'll excuse me
i'll sit here and remember
what really happened and how
it transformed our world
we're still so much in the thick
of that change now that we
can't appreciate it just yet...
I kept myself from weeping that day. I recall being overwhelmed with despair at the sheer depravity of it all once I saw the planes, I was dumbfounded, couldn't believe what was going on. Those poor people burning alive, so many leapt to their deaths and it was all on tv. Someone said watch out because you might get hit by folks leaping and bursting like bags of cement on the sidewalk. It was dreadful and the sound was even worse than anything in a horror movie. I had nightmares later and eventually wept gutted by the sheer uselessness of all it. We should never forget 9/11 and especially the poor souls who perished. May they R.I.P.
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