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The Lesson [Ecclesiastes 9:11]

[I returned]
to the site of the World Trade Center
[and saw under the sun]
a year and a half later
[that the race is not to the swift]
though the fastest insist God is on their side
[nor the battle to the strong]
though the mightiest vainly spend their billions.

[I returned]
to the site of Ground Zero
[and I saw under the sun]
the mark of madmen and knew if
[the race is not to the swift] then
slow humility, compassion and love
are the only winners because
[time and chance happenth to them all].
jkather@elmira.edu
©Jan Kather 2004