9/11/2001 - The Excuse Poem by Claude H Oliver II

Complete obliteration
Was this demolition
Three thousand humans lost
Seven buildings destroyed -
Two planes caused this?
Two buildings each a quarter mile tall
Each took only ten seconds to fall
What new laws of physics were enacted here?
Since when do planes reduce massive buildings to powder?

Death was used as a pretext for more death
Terror was given as the right to make more terror
Demolition was the excuse for war and abuse

The purveyors of death presented lies as truth
We responded by murdering human youth
How do we face our children knowing this sad truth?

9-11-2008