Tomorrow Is the Tenth Anniversary of 9-11

Tomorrow Is the Tenth Anniversary of 9-11

A Poem by Elton Camp
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The Tenth Anniversary of 9-11 is Tomorrow

 

By Elton Camp

 

There are many who don’t know what to do

It’s possible that individual panic will ensue

And to be open about it, I would have to admit

If I lived in NYC or DC, I would be having a fit

 

Perhaps I would find a reason to be out of town

But denying belief that harm would come around

I might assert confidence that we’re well protected

So, by the government and evil plot will be detected

 

But better safe than sorry I then decide that I’ll be

And so to a more unlikely target I will quietly flee

For there may come to be a blast so horribly loud

Followed by a mushroom-shaped radioactive cloud

 

In a couple of days, what happens all will know

If true, I can claim that, “In advance I told you so.”

For that is how a bogus prophet can come to be

Make predictions in generalities and wait and see

 

That is how Nostradamus came to have such fame

Keep it vague so that others his accuracy acclaim

So, if tomorrow, an atomic device should explode

Gullible may exclaim, “About it that guy knowed.”

 

But if this “prediction” proves to be entirely rotten

Then this write will be quickly and entirely forgotten

And so, if it is still possible, to CNN please tune in

Perhaps you will hear of my “prediction” once again

 

© 2011 Elton Camp


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Elton Camp
Elton Camp

Russellville, AL



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I am retired from college teaching/administration and writing as a hobby. My only "publications" are a weekly column in our local newspaper. Most of my writing is prose, but I do produce some "poetr.. more..

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