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19.12.06

written last sept. 11, 06--five years after

9/11/06

8.46am.

It's been five years since



Sister last went to work

(A new job)
Son flew his last flight

(Just the usual coast-to-coast thing)
Father said goodbye and went inside

(I have a job to do)



Then remember the things left
unsaid
Enveloped in plumes of gray smoke
while the whole world watches.


Flowers and condolences are left at doorsteps;
no one knew it was just to be the start of a greater tragedy.



As the years pass,
it'll all be
just another footnote
in the history books.

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