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 Schizophrenic citizen of the worldBy Shoreh Kooshesh May 16, 2002 The Iranian This was emailed to iranian.com on September 15, 2001. For the next few days iranian.com will offer unpublished reactions to the September 11 attacks from its archives. 9/11 day. Recent headlines come sharply into focus. Belfast... Catholic school girls escorted day after day to school by their parents Palestine. Suicide bombs. Desperation. I heard them. But I did not hear them. But how can all my heart be swallowed up by tragedy And how can my head nod in agreement with headlines America changed forever When this tragedy occurs every day I am not delusional Every day people go through this On a daily basis Over and over 4 planes hijacked turned into human missiles and driven into the symbols of America symbols which contained 50,000 people. Running for their lives Smoke filling the air, Satans face captured on film And the dust settles And tomorrow's another day And we are afraid We want to kick some ass So we can return to normal life But what if it happened again? Maybe now in five years we can forget this But what if it happened again? Then we wouldn't be US. We would be Palestine Or Ireland Or Sudan Or Kashmir. You DON'T get it. So for half a day We got to experience their lives And somehow It is not as valuable Human life When it happens to them The other But when it happens to us Not even approaching the scale of Human extinction Like killing coach roaches Another faceless Nameless person dead It doesn't matter anyway Who can pronounce those names? Aren't they the same as the innocent who died On 9/11 day? Is there room in my heart to ache for all of them? If I did I could never be happy Never enjoy a beautiful sunrise Or lounge around a lazy fall day Could I?
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