guy in the September 11th t-shirt
it gets hard
to point out a true patriot these days
but the guy who just passed me was decked out
USA cap
stars’n’stripes bandana
coming out of the back
of his jean pocket
he’s a regular uncle sam
he even had on his 9/11 t-shirt
a crisp white cotton
with the words written blood red
WE WILL NEVER FORGET
there was a cartoon image
of the manhattan skyline on the front
i expected to see the twin towers front and center
standing erect
like two big penises
larger in legend than they ever stood in life
but instead there was just a cloud of dust
billowing up in the sky
surrounding the buildings
enveloping the island
a macabre reminder for sure
one wonders
where he got a shirt like that
why not get a t-shirt
with one of the planes ramming right in
it’s america
they must make them
i guess he wanted something
a touch more subtle
years ago
some guy in downtown
tried to sell me a flip book of 9/11
it was a think little volume
of bright, beautiful pictures
of planes smacking into buildings
of people falling out of windows
of people running for their lives
of buildings falling
it wasn’t as cool a cartoon t-shirt
but you could flip the book frontwards
and experience 9/11 as many times as you wanted
or you could get creative
flip the book backwards
and pretend that the day never happened
TEGROF REVEN LLIW EW
or something like that.
--John Grochalski
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