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Months after
the towers came down
he sat an Upstate
New York bar
drinking lunch,
in town for business,
his friends teasing him,
“So were you one
of those guys we saw
on TV running away
as the second twin
came down?”
“Bet your ass
I was.”
He said.
Not smiling.
Not even vaguely
amused, as if he was
thinking, ”I could
have been one of those
human specks falling
down the side of
a building from
just-above-impact-
floor.”
“What would you
have done? Hung out
to watch or stayed in
the lobby to see what
happened next?
I don’t think so.”
I didn’t either.
Alan Catlin is poetry editor of online journal misfitmagazine.net. His latest book of poetry is American Odyssey from Future Cycle Press.