The United States After 9/11

 

 

I have nothing left of this same whatnot

recoil madness inside how to forget

or what is never going… what is fraught

with impatience, or ambulance of jet

 

maelstrom, majesty and forgetfulness

decided in advance, I have nothing

but the heavy address of loneliness

and the exacting burden of being

 

upon the shoulder of a fragment – Life

sees through every predicament, all holes,

maybe now peers against reflection, strife

and holy, disenfranchises all coals

 

for burning what’s not waste, but reflection

in a pond we’ve dug ourselves, as nation.

 

©2007 wfairbrother

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