Dial nine-one-one, Believe
Nine-one-one 
planes crashing into
buildings collapsing on
people on the run 

Nine-eleven
drop to your knees, 
pray to heaven

Nine-one-one
smoke and rubble covering
molten graves fusing 
flesh and steel as one

Nine-eleven
drop to your knees
pray to heaven

Nine-one-one
mass murder makes
mass media makes 
masses numb

So many killed
so many times

So many bereft

Is there anyone left
untouched?

Nine-one-one
a day to remember, of
a bygone September, when 
we came together as one
People.

Nine-eleven
drop to your knees, 
pray to heaven

Thank God
if you can still 
believe. 

Robert Johnson is Professor and Chair of the Dept of Justice, Law and Society, at American University. 

(c) 2003 Robert Johnson

Other poems by Robert Johnson: "It Takes A Child" and "Village Life" and "Living Free Is the Best Revenge"

Johnson's first published collection of poems, Poetic Justice is now available. Many sample poems, contents and ordering information are available in this Adobe .pdf file (92k). 

Amazon.com: Poetic Justice: reflections on the Big House, the Death House & the American Way of Justice

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Other poems by Robert Johnson: "It Takes A Child" and "Village Life" and "Living Free Is the Best Revenge"

Johnson's first published collection of poems, Poetic Justice is now available. Many sample poems, contents and ordering information are available in this Adobe .pdf file. 

Amazon.com: Poetic Justice: reflections on the Big House, the Death House & the American Way of Justice

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