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Today September 11, 2012, we have read "Gravity's Rainbow: The 9/11 Memorial Manages a Delicate Balance Between Grief and Consolation" . Below I am going to create a found poem about this article.

 

 

 

 

Few months after the attack on the World Trade Center,

New York City, called for a "soaring" memorial to the people who died on 9/11,

Two massive square voids sited within the footprints of the towers,

The collapse of the towers had pounded out a space to deposit feelings about that whole wretched day,

The memorial doesn't carry you into a dark place,

It manages to acknowledge the inevitability of grief at this place,

A few months after the 9/11 attacks,

dark voids express a sense of loss and grief,

reach into your feelings about the grave,

the falling water exerts its ancient power to console.

There the names of the 9/11 dead would be inscribed on walls visible behind the curtains of falling water,

In all there are 2,983, 

including everyone (other than the terrorists) who died at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,

and in the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., 

as well as the six who died in the truck bomb attack on the Twin Towers in 1993.

This poem is about how at New York City there was an attack on the World Trade Center. People were crying for the dead of many other people. The towers collapsed leaving lots of people worried, sad, and causing dead. Then it comes in telling you that you should feel like in a dark place when you come near where this happen. It says you should acknowledge the inevitability of the grief in this place.