Edku: October 2001

Move backwards to September 2001.

1.
We ask not your arms
Lick the hands of your master
Go from us in peace

--Nella White

2.
Twin towers crumble
People cry, sirens wailing
Our peace is shattered

--Sonya L. Sandoval

3.
"Why?" the people cry
"Why the hate, the destruction?"
We can't find answers

--Sonya L. Sandoval

4.
God says, "I am here.
Come to me with your grieving
I will give you peace."

--Sonya L. Sandoval

5.
Terrorists will know
United States will never
Bow down to their hate

--Sonya L. Sandoval

6.
With God on our side
Our nation will rise again
We will overcome

--Sonya L. Sandoval

7.
Religion is dead.
There are no believers left.
It's heaven on earth!

--Clive Oseman

8.
Mrs. Innocent.
My God's better than your God.
Now die in those flames.

--Clive Oseman

9.
I like to think that
one day we will understand.
But I'm not stupid.

--Clive Oseman

10.
Tolerance and love,
the basis of religion?
Don't spout such garbage!

--Clive Oseman

11.
Your duty is done.
The blood is spilled, the flesh burned.
Your God is happy.

--Clive Oseman

12.
Evil has spoken.
But the human spirit will
rise above it all.

--Clive Oseman

13.
The bearded man smiles
Serenity in eyes
Peacefully he stabs

--Matt Blankenship

14.
We learned much that day,
apprentices of new war.
Now, wait for our planes.

--Matt Blankenship

15.
I once was a head
And I traveled with the Dead
Taxes changed my mind

--Bryan Hinzie

16.
I can't comprehend
the prejudice and hatred
poisoning our minds.

--Clive Oseman

17.
Gullible are cursed
by the pernicious filth of
disturbed fanatics.

--Clive Oseman

18.
In Hatred's winter,
the good people of the world
wait for the sunshine.

--Clive Oseman

19.
Terrorists pay price
as worldwide complicity
slowly melts away.

--Clive Oseman

20.
"All the news that fits"
Other disasters obscured
Toulouse cries unheard

--John Cho

21.
Chechens lose favor
Now they're Muslim terrorists
Putin's stock goes up

--John Cho

22.
Border fence grows tall
Bush hammers in a new sign
"Mexico can wait"

--John Cho

23.
Food parcels no use
to innocent people killed
by the "good guy's" bombs.

--Clive Oseman

24.
Israel and the States
have as much blood on their hands
as Bin Laden does.

--Clive Oseman

25.
Turkey knocks on door
Gives Europe another gift
Still can't join their club

--John Cho

26.
What is it we did
to Osama bin Laden
besides fighting back.

--Lee Malone

27.
Bite the hand that feeds
Piss on billion-dollar aid
Bush glares at Sharon

--John Cho


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