Friday, October 07, 2022

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.

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