ABSTRACT
After years of U.S. missiles flying into outward shores, a decade after 100,000 Iraqis cruise missile'd to death under Father George The war has now come home, where it's apparent to all what a senseless random murderer is the one-eyed giant Terror how it eats its innocent victims screaming alive, feet flailing how it breaks the strongest of hacks, rips flesh wide open how it tosses arms East, legs South, skull & genitals North and West how it forces hardened athletes to dive headfirst 99 floors to a concrete death softer than its iron teeth how it leaves no paperwork behind to comfort the living how it answers pleading mothers & weeping babes with a knife to the belly, glass shards to throat how it burns a skyline of fresh bones to fragile white ash —Eliot Katz, New York City, September 2001 (from “When the Skyline Crumbles”)
