Something Good

[Jon Ford]

This is a very powerful poem. Many of the Muslims I know out here feel the 
same way, but to hear from somebody who was in New York when it all 
started-- and who expresses herself so powerfully--it breaks down the 
barriers, opens us up. "over there is over here." Yes.

Jon


>From: mbuttons <mbuttons@gate.net>
>To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
>Subject: Re: Something Good
>Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 13:44:17 -0500
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>maybe she didn't cry while writing it, but reading it is a different matter
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>thank you Jim
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>love
>m-a
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>on 11/08/2001 7:32 PM, Jim Baldauf at jfbaldauf@prodigy.net wrote:
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>WAR POEMS
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>A poem by Suheir Hammad
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>1. there have been no words.
>i have not written one word.
>no poetry in the ashes south of canal street.
>no prose in the refrigerated trucks driving debris and dna.
>not one word.
>
>t

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