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The Freedom Tower

Eugene Schlanger, the Wall Street Poet, has passed along his latest poem The Freedom Tower which he recently posted in the comments section of the New York Times City Room blog in reaction to news of delays with the reconstruction at Ground Zero.

The Freedom Tower

by Eugene Schlanger, the author of September 11 Wall Street Sonnets (Paris 2006)

Long after Schumer, Clinton and Pataki
Are relegated to storage, their images
Yellowed and curled like old site maps,
Others may continue to chatter about
The Freedom Tower as a symbol of
Urban and national resistance to terror.
I would sooner trust the judgment of
My fellow New Yorkers: None would work
Anywhere near that plated fixation—
1776 feet of dire steel, glass and concrete;
As if New York needed to reassure
The Baathists, Bedouin, French or Germans
That we live in the center of the universe
At the apex of all known civilizations.

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