A journal on the writer's role in society edited by esther altshul helfgott ____________________ |
Julian Mueller May 30 Today, lift the last I-beam, load the last truck finished, six months, nineteen days since 9/11 what now a sixteen acre hole where victims remain we victims examine our intact limbs move on seek retribution, send ordinance to surrogates drop daisy cutters, laser-guided bombs a holy government inclined to harbor holy perpetrators falls its army defeated by dint of fire power In another country elders convince children that strapping on explosives and blowing up other children is holy we claim that the holy children and the fathers who bless them are oppressed, have no alternative we claim that the army that seeks to make its country safe from holy children are terrorists we are all terrorists and we are all victims the nails, the shards of steel emanating from holy bodies at the moment of impact are merely reclaimed scrap from daisy cutters and laser guided bombs rebuild now, start anew take children's limbs from both places as I-beams make their blood our cement c 2002Julian Mueller |
A journal on the writer's role in society edited by esther altshul helfgott ____________________ |
Julian Mueller: "The date of May 30 (2002) is the day on which demolition of the WTC site was declared finished. I believe that May 30 ends our period of collective mourning. It is, in theory at least, the day when we, as an American society, start to rebuild both the site and the concept of post 9/11 life in the States." |
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JULIAN MUELLER: "I graduated in '60 from Bucknell U. with a degree in chemistry and English. I spent my career in the chemical industry with 25 years as Pres/CEO of chemical companies. I retired at the end of '94. I was living in Cleveland at the time and decided that I would put everything that didn't fit into my car in storage and spend '95 traveling throughout the US trying to decide where I wanted to live and what, if anything, I wanted to do. In Nov '95 I decided to settle in Seattle. I began writing prose on my trip. Once settled here, I began writing fiction. Eventually, I shifted over to poetry and have been writing for about 4 or 5 years." |
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