[Sca-cooks] : Towers (OT)

[Elizabeth A Heckert]

Gentle Cousins,

I have been trying to find out all weekend if I had permission to forward
this further than me.  Reading it made me think of the heros/superheros
thread.  "Farscape" is a space opera serial by the Jim Henson company.
If 'Frank' can't backstep, maybe 'John' and 'D'Argo' could come home
talking softly and carrying big sticks ...

    Elizabeth

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Subject: Towers
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:11:52 -0700 (PDT)

A Poem called "Towers" by wednesday16
Found Online at the Farscape Bulletin Board
9/14/2001 Message 5313
Reprinted with the author's permission.

	The day the Towers fell
	It felt more like a movie than real life.
	The videos showed people running.
	Screaming.
	Praying.
	Just like when the aliens attacked
	On Independence Day.

	The buildings fell so perfectly,
	So quickly,
	So completely,
	That it had to be unreal.

	Tragedy lasts two hours.
	There is always an arc.
	There is always a hero.
	There is always a boy and a girl.
	When the resolution comes,
	All is well.

	I am searching for a moral in the rubble.
	Was world trade our Tower of Babel?
	It seems like language has died
	A second death.

	The journalist tells of a fireman
	Who dragged her out of the path of fire
	And covered her body with his own.
	She did not know his name.

	Witnesses say a man and woman
	Leapt to their deaths holding hands.

	Morality is one of the survivors
	Found in the SUV.
	It is alive
	And all is well,
	But it wasn't in the towers as they fell.

	I grew up in the suburbs.
	My biggest fears were car-jacking and fire.
	There were no bunkers in my childhood.
	No attack drills.
	No rationing.
	Even the Cold War was over.
	The Gulf War happened on TV,
	While I was still a child.
	This is different.
	I am sure
	Before this is over,
	That someone I know will have died.

	Blood is screaming for blood.
	For vengeance.
	But we have waited to be sure.
	We will not become our enemies.
	We hate them now as much as they hate us.
	But even in our hatred,
	We are speaking different languages.

	I want to know why,
	Now that it's been over two hours,
	Why is there still smoke in the air?


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