Words of Anger, Love Are Left in the Dust
The words of defiance are scrawled in the World Trade Center dust blanketing lower Manhattan. “America is still strong,” someone wrote with a finger on the proud symbol of Wall Street might--the statue of the bull in the heart of the financial district.
On walls and window and bins and cars all around the rubble pile, New Yorkers have left messages in the grainy dust. They are expressions of anger, love, despair and patriotism, a form of temporary poetry that will last not nearly as long as the memories.
“Kevin Kerwin, We’re Looking for You,” someone wrote at the Morgan Stanley brokerage offices.
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