14-9-2001 (Florence)

 

 

Americans are Senseless Beasts

 

Hearing

Seeing

Jets exploding

In a hotel bar

Could barely concentrate

Amidst silent, engrossed Europeans

And (in the back) laughing, glass-clinking Americans

Who'd seemingly be damned if some terrorist attack was gonna ruin their goddamn vacation.

Days later

Listening

Watching

3-minute-European-silence-montage

Poor shame-faced Italian boy watches his unscolded American analogue feed coins into a pay phone.

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