New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said construction work will continue at Ground Zero, despite recent finds of human remains at the site. He said the discoveries, which included 18 fragments found on Sunday, would not halt work at the 9/11 attack site. Families of more than 1,100 of those who died have never received any remains of their loved ones. New finds of bones and human fragments last Friday sparked angry calls for the construction work to be halted.
One life. One skull. One bone. One moment.
Human remains… nothing to you, another collateral shard, political gain, fragment of meaningless life spiraling underground beneath the weight of thousands.
Raise thy fetid memorial, bury the unburied. Appearances… soiled callousness, numb sanctimony of one.
What if it were two Or twenty?
Would the dark machines pause? Bow their heads, bent in mechanical prayer?
Rewind the tape, see a flash, a passport, a bomb, a gun, a skull, a bone, a soul sealed deep down, down, down… dead…again.
He said the discoveries, which included 18 fragments found on Sunday, would not halt work at the 9/11 attack site.
Families of more than 1,100 of those who died have never received any remains of their loved ones.
New finds of bones and human fragments last Friday sparked angry calls for the construction work to be halted.
One life. One skull. One bone. One moment.
Human remains…
nothing to you,
another collateral shard,
political gain,
fragment of meaningless life
spiraling underground
beneath the weight
of thousands.
Raise thy fetid memorial,
bury the unburied.
Appearances…
soiled callousness,
numb sanctimony
of one.
What if it were two
Or twenty?
Would the dark machines
pause? Bow their heads,
bent in mechanical prayer?
Rewind the tape,
see a flash, a passport,
a bomb, a gun, a skull,
a bone, a soul sealed deep
down, down, down…
dead…again.
Copyright © 2006 mrp / thepoetryman
'No building halt' at Ground Zero