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And to think that, seven years ago, America blinked, gasped, glared, transfixed, at its TV's, As it witnessed the ghastly collapse Of Wall Street's World Trade Center — Those colossal twin towers falling, In the debris-polluted space of a few swift hours — And believed we'd seen Armageddon come in the flesh.
Little did any of us, then, or in the aftermath, As thousands tried to dig out, from under the implications, Cart away the ramifications, to Fresh Kills, Suspect that the scourge of those two buildings Would prove to be peanuts, chopped liver, The proverbial Big Apple bubkes, Compared to the leveling of Wall Street, since 2007 —
Bear Stearns, Countrywide Financial, IndyMac Bank, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Merrill Lynch, American International Group, Lehman Brothers Holdings. Indeed, the wreckage nineteen hijackers wreaked On three thousand victims and one nation's psyche Was two blips, when judged against what greed has done Not just to this country but to lives worldwide.
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