and all this while I have been playing with toys
a toy superhighway a toy automobile a house of blocks
and all this while far off in other lands
thousands and thousands, millions and millions
you know — you see the pictures
women carrying bony infants
men sobbing over graves
buildings sculpted by explosion —
earth wasted bare and rotten
and all this while I have been shopping, I have
been let us say free
and do they hate me for it
do they hate me
...the window, at the moment of flame by Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Princeton
Reflections on 9/11. Pausing for a moment of thought. Do they hate us?
Keep reading and writing,
Maureen
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