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I
A ghostly
crescent
moon
and
bloodred
star
rise
over
Manhattan
out of the
crematorial smoke,
the
ash of
flesh
&
fire
&
e-
yes
paralyzed
witnesses to
their own
immolation
as other
bodies
licked by
flames
leap
into
emptiness
an apocalyptic
numbing
the bodies
collapse
into the
ground at
243
miles
per
hour
the subtraction of
one from everything
3,000
times.
In the biology
of terror,
one lung
collapses
speech
strangles
in the
throat
the heart
consumes
itself
alive.
“Garments of fire
shall be cut,
and there shall be
poured over their heads
boiling water
whereby
whatsoever is in
their bellies
and their skins
shall be melted.” --The Koran
II
The agents,
the assassins,
their virulent
lieutenants
hypnotized &
dreaming
through America
unrecognized
&
unmolested
they bow
five times
in prayer
and five
times
see
the promised
Paradise
wherein the
wide-eyed Virgins
moan
enflaming
erotic
fire.
“The devotees
of Allah
shall be honored
in the gardens of delight.
And beside them
there will be
bashful, dark,
big, beautiful-eyed
virgins.” --The Koran
III
Mohammed
Atta
gathers the
monkey
men
to suffocate
our
fatal
innocence.
©2001, David Stewart
A graduate of the Defense Language Institute, David Stewart began writing while working as a linguist in Izmir, Turkey.
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