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Xanadu

Wandering around Manhattan with friends, without preparation or a personal agenda, the week after an anniversary that might have included impeding ceremonies, I had only a few minutes to capture a meaningful photo of the 9/11 Monument, failed, and settled for this somewhat austere land/city/sky/scape on the lower west side of Manhattan. Despite the monument’s obvious merits, I wondered about the wisdom of devoting such resources to reinforcing a wound that can never heal. I’ve lived in The New Yorker for half a century, Midtown for a handful of scattered weeks, all after the event, and am not entitled to an opinion.

 

Pumps cry a river.

Life goes on—no time for grief.

Still, it gives one pause.

 

Freedom’s just another

Word for nothing left to lose.

We still have plenty.

 

3 Mar 2022; 13:00 CST; Provia +

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Taken on September 22, 2021