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The Awful Day

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A strategic

Maybe a cosmic

Joke

For terrorists to play

On us,

Choosing the day that means

Emergency

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This year

The President is at the Pentagon

The Vice President is in New York

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I was teaching then

And only understood in parts

I heard a part

And drove to work

Entered the classroom

The TV was on

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Then the sorting-out began

With news,

With

People we knew who might have been there

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C L Couch

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Photo by Julien Maculan on Unsplash

Downtown Manhattan view from Brooklyn on September 11, 2001

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