What I Said by Norman Stock Poem Analysis

This poem uses runon sentences to create a dramatic effect in the poem's words.  This causes readers to pay more attention to what the speaker is actually saying.  Since the poem was written after 2002, the author notes a "terror" which i believe this to be talking about 9/11 and the attack on the twin towers.  In lines 2, 3, and 4, you can see the upset and sadness in the speaker's words with how she went home and cried.  In line 5, she repeats the words why.  This may be to show the author's confusion on why this even happened in the first place, since there was not much knowledge on why this happened in the city of New York.  Throughout the rest of the poem, she asks herself how this could even happen since we have air traffic control and military bases that monitor the sky.  In line 8,  she asks what will happen next and how are we supposed to live with such destruction in the city.  She feels as if this could happen, something even worse could happen.  She uses repetition with  the words "its impossible" to show how something this terrible was so unexpected by the general public such as an allusion back to the "unsinkable" Titanic sinking.  In line 12, she references back to the title when saying "i said and I said".  The 13th lines states "after the terror yes and then i said let's kill them." After i read this line, my thoughts about the poem changed drastically.  I feel as if the use of runon sentences were an effect to create drama about how the American society was so upset and terrorized after such an event, when millions of people in other countries are dying due to the war taking place in their own country.  I feel as if the author is trying to create the point that Americans were very hypocritical because they wanted to kill the group of people who were responsible for this.  Killing hundreds of people of the same culture as the men who did this is just as bad as what they did to us.  Hence the author's use of repeating the same words and ideas throughout the poem.