(for the victims and survivors of 9/11 and their families)
In truth, we do not feel the horror of the survivors, but what passes for horror:
a shiver of “empathy.”
We too are “survivors,” if to survive is to snap back from the sight of death
like a turtle retracting its neck.
Published by The HyperTexts, Gostinaya (Russia), Ulita (Russia), Promosaik(Germany), The Night Genre Project and Muddy Chevy; also turned into a YouTube video by Lillian Y. Wong. Keywords: survivors, victims, families, 911, 9/11, terrorist, attack, terrorism, empathy, sympathy, truth, horror, death, survive, survival