If Your Name Is on the List
-Addriene Rich
If your name is on the list of judges
you're one of them
though you fought their hardening
assumptions went and stood
alone by the window while they
concurred
It wasn't enough to hold your singular
minority opinion
You had to face the three bridges
down the river
your old ambitions
flamboyant in bloodstained mist
You had to carry off under arm
and write up in perfect loneliness
your soul-splitting dissent
Yes, I know a soul can be partitioned like a country
In all the new inhere old judgments
loyalties crumbling send up sparks and smoke
We want to be part of the future dragging in
what pure futurity can't use
Sudddenly a narrow street a little beach a little century
screams Don't let me go
Don't let me die Do you forget
what we were to each other
1999
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