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Reflective
Posted by on Thursday, August 31 @ 14:30:43 UTC

: Part IV. Gates of Hell (Last Tuesday)
on Thursday, August 31 @ 14:30:43 UTC
conect11 writes:: " There aren't any windows
in the side of this building.
It is scaffolding, skeletal
and burnt even now.
Everything here is construction /
demolition /
and memorial
commingling with the ways of the world
and finance
and business.


Things are back to normal,
but not to the way they were.
At least not here.
There is daylight through the atrium,
and graffiti on the temporary outdoor wall
which reads:
"remember, Jesus loves the people you hate."
This is so different in scope and scale than anything I've seen before.
Everything else I had seen had been so small,
Dealey Plaza was tiny
but seemed larger than life in "JFK."
This is enormous
just a gaping wound at the edge of the great city.
The smart alek cop on Broadway
lived through this place
through these fiery gates of hell.
I walk out the rear door onto a small plaza.
Here is the Hudson
I went to school upriver.
Lady Liberty is closed just across the way.
I remember barely seeing her through the smoke and ash.
I remember Joe Delguidice from Jersey.
I remember Anthony, and his brother Frank
and how they must have cried.
I've never met a rude person from the five Burroughs.
Up the street,
past the buildings which still haven't been torn down
just carefully dismantled bit by bit
with the "danger! Asbestos" signs at ground level
is a serviceable Indian restaurant
serving serviceable Indian fast - food.
I sat in the seats of the dead.
I walked in the footsteps of the dead in this place.
"


 
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