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Daily Deviation
December 17, 2001
Literature Text
if i ever
wanted you to know this
id tell you
if i ever
felt that
the world was too small
id make her big
if ever i grew up
id drown
in these tears
of a thousand angry men
the voices of a million shouting children
buzzing in my head
calling out to me
they claw
faceless hands
begging me for help
and the smell is
manifesting here
dropping me ill
until i can no longer feel.
the clouds of smoke
that linger for miles
when all we care about
is the payroll
here is how we fall
in unison out of our skin;
calling out to the twin we never had
yelling out to our birth places
that we always forgot about
tearing down the sky;
one cloud at a time.
Tearing Down in Elevens.
wanted you to know this
id tell you
if i ever
felt that
the world was too small
id make her big
if ever i grew up
id drown
in these tears
of a thousand angry men
the voices of a million shouting children
buzzing in my head
calling out to me
they claw
faceless hands
begging me for help
and the smell is
manifesting here
dropping me ill
until i can no longer feel.
the clouds of smoke
that linger for miles
when all we care about
is the payroll
here is how we fall
in unison out of our skin;
calling out to the twin we never had
yelling out to our birth places
that we always forgot about
tearing down the sky;
one cloud at a time.
Tearing Down in Elevens.
September 11, 2001.
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"Here is how we fall
in unison out of our skin"
A gorgeous line. Actually, the whole thing is striking and lovely. (And, importantly, *subtle*. This is the only other poem I've seen so far in the 9-11 tribute that isn't grade-school style "children died/mothers cried" glurge.)
I like it a lot; I don't know what else to say.
in unison out of our skin"
A gorgeous line. Actually, the whole thing is striking and lovely. (And, importantly, *subtle*. This is the only other poem I've seen so far in the 9-11 tribute that isn't grade-school style "children died/mothers cried" glurge.)
I like it a lot; I don't know what else to say.