Universal Emergency

Nobody told me 9+1+1=11
9/11=9:11

My brother works 9 to 11
At the 9-Eleven store

9-1-1. what's your emergency?
I have to report a robbery in my neighborhood.

What's the address, ma'am?
911A Gates Ave, Brooklyn.

What's that?
1+1 towers just dropped.

1+1=1
1 drop plus 1 drop makes a bigger drop, not two.

Amma fell hard and never got up
I slept for 9 hours and 11 minutes

last night Zia declared martial law
MashAllah.

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Ayesha Bashir (she/her) is a junior studying moving images at Bennington College. Originally from Karachi, Pakistan, her work is driven by Left Bank cinema and experimental animation. She is currently a curatorial and learning intern at Dia Art Foundation.

Ayesha Bashir on "Universal Emergency:"

I had been seeing the numbers nine and eleven everywhere over the past year. Even though in numerology these numbers are lucky, but in the lives of Muslims in this country they carry a heavyweight. These numbers became the manifestation of Islamophobia after the fall of the twin towers.