Flinn, On the Bus.

This poem is somewhat hard to understand but was very interesting to me. "Three hours after the buildings fell, he took a seat beside me. Fresh out of prison, after 24 months, You're my first hello!" These were the first three lines in the poem and it grabbed my attention. Being that Naomi Shihab Nye was linked to writing about the September 11th, 2001 attack on the trade towers i automaticly figure she was talking about the trade towers in  the first line. Later in the poem Naomi talks about a person singing behind her on the bus that had spent time in jail. This person felt his lawyers did him wrong and he wanted revenge. But he didnt want to go back to jail so he second guessed his revenge plan. I felt this is similar to Americans wanting revenge on the terrorist or whoever they thought was responsible for the trade tower attack. "Savaged skylinesn thousands of lives" was said in the poem and that it was exactly happen on 9/11. The last line of the poem was "Peace is rough".