Dec 15, 2009
When the jet rose six miles high,
it was clear that the earth was round
and that it had more sea than land.
But it was difficult to understand
that the men on the earth found
causes to hate each other, to build
walls across cities and to kill.
From that height, it was not clear why.
- Zulfikar Ghose
Pakistani-American poet, novelist, and literary critic.
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