QUANTUM LOOP

Can I leap now?
Al, why haven’t I leaped?
Isn’t my work here done?
What does Ziggy say? Al?
Al? Can you hear me, Al?
Why haven’t I leaped?
Didn’t I do what Ziggy
says I should? Al?
I came years ago
and wrote down what I saw,
what I saw before it changed.
And now I scripted aftermath.
Wasn’t all that why I was here, Al?
Can you ask Ziggy for me?

- By Anthony Buccino
From ONE MORNING IN JERSEY CITY
A post-Sept. 11 poem.
Quantum Leap
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