NYC : September 11. 2001

by Dwayne Edward Rourke

 

 

Rain

drops

fell

one

by one

onto the

thin skin of nylon

separating me from,the

Great Outdoors as I awoke from

a quiet and restful sleep on the side of Green Mountain.

They inspired me to write about my recent trip to New York City by dictating my story into my computer. My friend John called as I was doing so, so I simply continued the dictation while telling him my story. One by one, the computer wrote the following words, presented here, unedited other than the coloring of certain words that seemed to want to hang together. These are the messages that began to make at least some sense to me out of a pile of gobbledeygook. Because this is generally what one must do with what bombards one through the media these days, I let the pile of word rubble stand, and looked for traces of truth among them by reading the whole mess in a different way. The results of this experimental process are highlighted in various colors and if you let go of the need to read in a logical, linear mode, you may find more than you first thought was present......

"Going to New New New New York City one one one one week after the most horrific terrorist attack ckckckckcckckck the American nation has ever experienced......to wake up that morning September 11th out of a dream where I was having this most most most most passionate embrace with an old lover the heat it was it was incredible it had this kiss that went so many levels deep and was so sweet and that's how it came down the mountain and I got to the House and almost immediately I got a call from a Henderson who of what is with any night on of the musical he's the artistic director and a was on his way to Seattle and had caught the news about with happening so in a first the early guidance and tear to grow again in on was hearing. All the live a rundown so I am the goal from that point event will be Putting together these promotional packages that we're to be devalued but was the only midway through it sold on a stop to my tracks without one and had to and an invalid access whole of her journey home was a taxi in fact happen or was this tragedy and chanted I experienced that the whole world changed overnight he will announce the way it be read off the past I can see that this wasn't an major turning point to aha so from that starting point to not to then push through decide OK were willing to go To gullies rate to go and how it now is you agree to receive less in a what they going through red heart of all so they did their soul-searching in the came back with the Act we E we it's a go into so of 11 had to work through fear around the whole and all the imaginings it come up around that the uncertainty and so on And it's the not belong to get there and fight a takeover is evident in grounded and that the cutback pencil so-with today's late her later getting out planned but several got into York City and of course a night and was I treat morning soulless business and a quiet time to arrive but you could already test feel it in the air event your the firefighters had been unbelievable heroes mean so altruistic and in a had lost a lot of since service of of the people they sure did and tax rate on the corner from where we stayed there is a fire hall the loss 14 guys so we can imagine it was a shrine to and I had a cavalry decries there and I went through some grieving that in fact seems to move me into a are releasing grief and have been caring since the death of mice system as a level that was that was set free powerful Little juncture for me totally unexpected but that that's that's correct move in a dentist-the wandering this and and and and and at any were more earth specifically gauged West did the cast and getting a train and my role in that context was not the same is there so I had time to wander the streets so I get a Dover into Times Square in Dallas as an awesome experience because of since there is a tourist was the Air inter and find some meaning an ominous and what what's gone on here you why has this happened and several I looked at him looking for clues in a also look up in a 25 stories and Tennessee and image of an of human mouth that's all various at the same time either years coming news of in a half of the body parts to finding in the track in the rubble and it does is put together its like Elvis this whole edifice that it created their is a disintegrating with us how I felt I thought it is felt to horn and pulled all these different directions and is that a thousand and one at competing and companies and a individual to try to get your attention and the the due in the most elaborate ways in the digital readouts the your across whole building is now in a gopher to her whole block long three layers of digital readout and its 10 ft. high and then over another 1% 25 story in the gap closing advertisement and then use your big neon and is that there's this and how and just as a booming buzzing noise everywhere, and me I this item bombarded is heartfelt of all got her and in fact they did an IRA it pushed me zero I dealt had called and debt and so that they and pushed me you really in turn over the next couple days as I I surrendered to end this to allow myself to be heard in Denton in our eyes rested but at the part where in heaven and huge wide-screen television with 600 channels are so closely anal refund that the hottest channels for affirmation and an got to be interested absently absently yet as a propaganda war on down five and hazardous if a strident of Seoul where of how of huge is in America I read it is being inside the bubble York in getting the and that the E ft. there in on them getting back to the I care a study to get trickles from other sources and especially to the Internet to skiing this whole different commentary and at in about getting out from under it the George Bush saying the your other with this critter to his desk and a thing when is dismissed so caught driving it in of its can take a lot of courage for people to stand up and make any kind commentary that in any way is critical of their actions and tax see the week of that but tonight getting back home but it's certainly have to broadens the focus and an upright from the ghetto lay Soleil sense of seen the poll rarity astrologically of of of Pluto sad and interests this summer and continue right it into now there's been a pass and saddened to the opposition would share this whole event seems to be a signature of San in other had to be some major security and power structure undergo a plutonium region while what shows say to those is to is a total annihilation of anything but the court essentials so it said its bottom of that trade center will wear people calling together and interest and very basic human waste supporting each a so I can't add the data is that data is what's important of the whole thing in on if if that seed of of altruism can be nurtured this chance but this this holds and an arrogant stance of yellow wall of this bill that a gain in not even to taking any time to consider why it happened to me to see that in the stuff was coming over the news and women this woman in her children in in in in one week with it at first week she was declaring the national television that she had she had done her grieving and that Hill, had to push John and the of which is lifted each other's this possible I mean the justices seemed typical of that the place of the denial is aware of this denied it is really has any reference to us personally and of this carry on almost as if nothing is happening and allow the commentary and certainly the best of emanating from the government supports that in August and June in and near the evildoers there's no connection back to us of that and were the good guys in there the bad guys 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