11/9
September 11, 2016 § Leave a comment
On 11/9 the Twin Towers stood up,
planes flew back into the sky,
and firemen throughout the city
ate pizza and played ping pong
on a day without fire, without
alarm.
After 11/9 everything changed—
troops deployed around the world
came home and the makers of
weapons made flowerpots instead,
leaving enough in the treasury
to buy everyone flowers.
If you can’t see this, if you are yet
in the rubble of one day’s collapse,
then you need stand with that
which does not fall, to sit where
the earth is one with the sky,
and you too will be the maker
of flowerpots—and make them big
enough for the blossoming of all.
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