Poem off of 9/11 photo

Once was America

2 down
A whole country to go

It's a beautiful day
A great day to kill
or starve a wife of love
and frighten a kid
when their mommy doesn't come pick them up from their clean and bright haven
maybe panic a nation
when hundreds die
under their pointed-up noses

We are the best
we are the beast

we hate them
they take and take and never give back
they put us in hell
so now
here and now
finally
we give it back
throw it in their faces

we will no longer live under their rule
we have come to conquer everything
from the moon to the core
the blazing hot core they believe they had a right to put a price tag on

we were here first
we will do the living
free from the chains of so-called democracy
they will regret all they ever did to me
me and my people
my country
my world
our world

they sit their running and screaming
asking what oh what lord did they do to deserve this
I will tell them
I will tell them loud and proud
we are the best
we are the beast

ha-ha

photo
photo credits to Rafael Fuchs, my father, shot as a view of 9.11 on 9.11

Analyzing Paintings

Painting: 'Landscape of Butterflies' by Salvador Dali


Observations
- wall of some sort is blocking out blue skies
- butterflies' shadows are distorted a bit
- butterflies are glowing
- small mountains in background
- butterflies are flying to get deeper in protection (?) of the wall

Inferences
- since they are flying more into wall, the wall may be protecting the butterflies
- the mountains and sky are some sort of reality, and maybe the shadows being distorted are showing how that reality is breaking
- the clouds in the sky represent a troubling thing
- the butterflies are (or think they are) in a better place than they were, with the wall protecting them
- mountains may represent past emotions or events

Interpretations
I think Dali is trying to say here is that when something upsets us, we believe that if we escape, everything will be ok again. The distorted shadows represent who the butterflies truly are, and we always try to leave behind who we are if we think we aren't good enough or are too afraid to take the next steps in our life. We as people tend to give in to critique and build an internal wall to try and stop it from hitting us, sometimes only working in the opposite way. We think disconnecting ourselves from the world will save us (hence the glowing of the butterflies), but really it hurts us even more.