7.08.2005

New Here

Those young men joked about
how they’d tear down the stairs
during our evacuation drill
They must have been new here
They thought it was funny
We queued & stepped
Carefully down 8 flights
& met at our spot
behind the fence in the parking lot
while behind us others checked
the closets & the stalls
& these two guys said if
it were a real emergency
we’d be like that Seinfield
guy and knock the old
& infirm out of our way
‘til we were safely outside
But these new guys don’t know
When the towers were twice as high
As the skyline & and then they weren’t
We all got out okay that morning

Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino
Copyright © 2005 by Anthony BuccinoKatyn Memorial


Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.

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An Un-Ordinary Day
Siberia 1939

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