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A MOMENT OF SILENCE BEFORE I START THIS POEM

Before I start this poem, I'd like to ask you to join me in a moment of
silence in honor of those who died in the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon last September 11th.


I would also like to ask you to offer up a moment of silence for all of
those who have been harassed, imprisoned, disappeared, tortured, raped,
or
killed in retaliation for those strikes, for the victims in both
Afghanistan
and the U.S.


And if I could just add one more thing...


A full day of silence for the tens of thousands of Palestinians who
have
died at the hands of U.S.-backed Israeli forces over decades of
occupation.
Six months of silence for the million and-a-half Iraqi people, mostly
children, who have died of malnourishment or starvation as a result of
an
11-year U.S. embargo against the country.


Before I begin this poem, two months of silence for the Blacks under
Apartheid in South Africa, where homeland security made them aliens in
their
own country. Nine months of silence for the dead in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki,
where death rained down and peeled back every layer of concrete, steel,
earth and skin and the survivors went on as if alive.


A year of silence for the millions of dead in Viet Nam - a people, not
a war
- for those who know a thing or two about the scent of burning fuel,
their
relatives' bones buried in it, their babies born of it. A year of
silence
for the dead in Cambodia and Laos, victims of a secret war ...
ssssshhhhh
... Say nothing ... we don't want them to learn that they are dead.
Two
months of silence for the decades of dead in Colombia, whose names,
like the
corpses they once represented, have piled up and slipped off our
tongues.


Before I begin this poem,


An hour of silence for El Salvador ... An afternoon of silence for
Nicaragua
.. Two days of silence for the Guetmaltecos ... None of whom ever knew
a
moment of peace in their living years. 45 seconds of silence for the 45
dead
at Acteal, Chiapas 25 years of silence for the hundred million Africans
who
found their graves far deeper in the ocean than any building could poke
into
the sky. There will be no DNA testing or dental records to identify
their
remains. And for those who were strung and swung from the heights of
sycamore trees in the south, the north, the east, and the west... 100
years
of silence...


For the hundreds of millions of indigenous peoples from this half of
right
here, Whose land and lives were stolen,


In postcard-perfect plots like Pine Ridge, Wounded Knee, Sand Creek,
Fallen
Timbers, or the Trail of Tears. Names now reduced to innocuous magnetic
poetry on the refrigerator of our consciousness ...


So you want a moment of silence?


And we are all left speechless Our tongues snatched from our mouths Our
eyes
stapled shut A moment of silence And the poets have all been laid to
rest
The drums disintegrating into dust


Before I begin this poem, You want a moment of silence


You mourn now as if the world will never be the same And the rest of us
hope
to hell it won't be. Not like it always has been


Because this is not a 9-1-1 poem This is a 9/10 poem, It is a 9/9 poem,
A
9/8 poem, A 9/7 poem This is a 1492 poem.


This is a poem about what causes poems like this to be written And if
this
is a 9/11 poem, then This is a September 11th poem for Chile, 1971 This
is a
September 12th poem for Steven Biko in South Africa, 1977 This is a
September 13th poem for the brothers at Attica Prison, New York, 1971.
This
is a September 14th poem for Somalia, 1992. This is a poem for every
date
that falls to the ground in

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