Remembering 9/11--you know, the one three years ago

i had
,once,
a Caliphdom in the sea
but it
,clearly,
escaped me
and i have
,now,
a Serfdom in the sand

I thought that one up when I was trying to fall asleep last night, and it really grows on you--especially if you go through the standard AP list of "how does form mirror content" etc. I was able to make connections to Islamic fundamentalism, US hegemony, the linguistic construction of violence, scapegoating, the Iraq invasion, the dissolution of Afghanistan, and a whole host of other tangents.
Please comment with your own addenda and/or interpretive insight.

Michael

p.s. I made it safely back to Minnesota, despite being on a nine hour flight with a swarm of Evangelicals and sitting in front of a heavyset Czech man whose first drink order was a vodka and who imagined he could hear the sounds from my headphones from his seat. School is starting off nicely, but, then again, I don't have to deal with high schoolers nearly as much as the rest of you (thank you lost MN democratic administrations!). I'll be writing letters to those of you who graced me with your pens, but I'll have to wait until my schedule settles down a bit.