Putting it in order

 

Later he tried to make sense of it but the best he could manage was to put the pieces of the day in alphabetical order

A is for Airplane flying too low and

B is for Big Burst of flame and Body parts

C is for Crashing into skyscraper

D is for Death from above

E is for Explosion and screaming

F is for Fire and Fatwa and First responders and people Falling from the sky

G is for Gimme Shelter and Giuliani and George Bush

H is for Holy Shit, everybody said, and Hijackers went to a strip club, I read

I is for Instant Karma getting us and I slam, you slam, we all slam Islamophobia.

J is for Jihadist Christians calling for war

K is for Kabul bombed by USA and Karzai backed by CIA

L is for Lives Lost in Lower Manhattan

M is for Mohammed Atta

N is for New York New York

O is for Osama bin Laden and Opium and Operation Enduring Freedom

P is for PTSD and Pentagon and Perpetual war

Q is for Questions unanswered or unasked

R is for Rumsfeld’s ass covered with Post-It Notes

S is for Saddam Hussein

T is for Towers and Taliban and Torture is now USA policy

U is for USA USA USA

V is for Victims and Violence and Viciousness and not Victory

W is for WAR WAR WAR

X is for Xenophobic hate crimes and eXtreme rendition

Y is for You need to get psychiatric help

Z is for Zero

Ground Zero, mon amour.

It’s a work in progress.