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September 11, 2001

Veiled tides
wash your buildings
away
before
the sea

there lie
your
bomb burnt bodies
their cenotath the street

counting upon the dead
to inform you of the missing

a crescent of smoke 
weaves across the sky

a holy war
for god's 
asylum
observed by unbelieving eyes