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9-11 in the Air
By Bedros Afeyan
He wrote to sail away
30,000 puffs of air
Unattached frame or basis
Pleas of comfort, salient cheer
Food, drink, menus naming chefs
Recycle movies, swiveling baby screens
Reclined outsize seat, business classed
Pillows, blankets, cookie crumbs dans l'air
Metal reinforced door to cockpit
Stewardess, sparing in self-defense
Sweating rubber bullets with the rest
Citizens flash lapel flags
Recovered hollowed lives
Falling Hollywood stampedes
Shoes in trays stuff x-ray machines
Check their cheeks, few paces each to each
Hand-held metal detected
Warning buzzers, chirps, beeps
Flashing lights snaking floors
Young men in full fatigues
Porting assault rifles
laser beaconed, dog sniffed
Witness random searches
As weaker links dissolve
To fraternity, equality
The memory of senseless dead
Imploded at the Wall
Since Liberty's wailing call
A nation better follow
Its solumn duty now.
1-18-02
UA147
Chicago to San Francisco
Revised:
9-11-2011
Bordeaux-Lac, France
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Dr. Bedros Afeyan is a theoretical physicist who works and lives in
the Bay area with his wife, Marine. He writes in Armenian and in
English and also paints and sculpts. Samples of his work can be found
on the web by clicking on his personal web pages at:
http://208.177.152.139/