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a description of the events 13 years later on September 11th 2014 by Tobias Deehan...
Colossus II
You survived the Trade Center attacks
Watched clumps of business wool flapping, smack-Smash
Into the plaza sidewalks
I was there too, glass and jet scream, steel bending sounds, disintegrating screams within the heat of the explosions
What seemed
Miles too high...
How slow;Pieces fell; in
Animation
Again through time, another tower fell
And watched from the other end
At the Merrill Lynch above the running crowds
Looking down for you in a muted shock of survival
Like the sound a wildebeest hears near death
In the lock-jaw of a lion
I made my way toward the East River
And felt the earthquake in front of The Exchange
And moved unevenly toward the east, away from the
Noise;As the cloud of death surged brown and bio-Breakdowns of hearts
And wills
Sand whips of computers, papers, mathematical figures Profits, plastic and Watches
In the atomic charge of destruction
And madness, absolute madness
And like a rat, I found a crack in a doorway
Just in time, adorned with lamb's blood as evil spirits Passed by
I thought it the end of days but it wasn't for me and you
The Colossus. And maybe something could have come
Of all that, a purpose beyond
Making money from murder and the selling of the self
Like a reckoning, like the hand of God reach out
Show mercy and stop the collapsing
Maybe build a foundation for the new Yankee Memorial Stadium
At the spot, zero
Or build the world's tallest roller coaster
And claim it for all humanity to ride-thrill
Instead, another tower
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