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WTC

Against the best advice,

We put up Babel twice:

Twin towers of such forms

As might be student dorms

For robots—angles right

And tolerances tight;

Barred, perfect as a trap

And for the flame to wrap.

The end in Genesis

Was different in this:

Incomprehension came

To halt the work, not maim.

The last time, possibly,

That language could rely

On making some effect,

If as an anti-act.

Our tongues so long confused

Must fail and be recused

In face of terror. Base

To summit, be its place

The Plain of Shinar, Main

Street, Wall, the Tower vain

If glorious is downed

By envy; goes to ground

With its automatons

Unschooled as to response.