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Running Late

November 30, 2022
By Anonymous

The morning of September 11 

Was very odd

The bus didn’t come

I had to take the subway

The walk to the subway was dreadful


Once I got to the subway

People where obnoxious 

I was annoyed because everything was going to slow 

I finally got on the subway

At 6:30

I had to be at work at 7 'o'clock

 

The subway pulled out of the station 

Stopped at exit 3 

I needed to be get off at exit 1

Time was ticking

Exit 1 began exiting at 652

I still had was a 14 minute walk 


I began walking and then

“BOOM”

Smoke hit me like a fastball 

then filled the sky

As I’m walking I can’t breath

I look down to see the Alert

World Trade Center has been Attacked


The author's comments:

I really liked this poem because I wrote it from a different perspective. Most people when they read a story like this it's different and it gives them a point of view like virtual reality. I think 9/11 is a very sad story that’s why I picked that instead of the other stories. It also was something that had really happened. It also happened right before I was born, during my mother's age. 


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