(...............11sept2) September 11,2007
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#74 (...............11sept2) September 11,2007
The sun does not seem to get discouraged,
it has risen and set more than 2,000 times
since that day the world we knew ended,
when I turned on the radio and the announcer
seemed to be narrating some latter-day 'War of the Worlds'
or playing old tapes of the '93 World Trade Center bombing
on its anniversary, but then listening more I learned
that the unthinkable had happened,
the lovely, twin needle-spires I used to gaze on,
silvered by the sun, from a hill on Staten Island,
in whose bowels I used to catch
the train to New Jersey,
those mighty, lovely objects
were gone forever,
blasted towers of the tarot,
and inside, a towering sense
of the stability of the world I lived in
crashed and fell in mirrored response.
Since then, the Asian tsunami,
the end of New Orleans as we knew it,
genocide in Darfur
and yet somehow my world goes on,
habits reconstitute themselves,
even the sense of the ordinary
survived and inconspicuously
returned one day
and is looking at me now
from across the table,
for the mind and senses
are not adequate to all this
Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration
continues to this day. ~ Gene Perret
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality,
but must live with a character. ~Peter Devries
Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as
Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as
athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as
Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic
as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him
anyway. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975da
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