Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.
June Jordanand if i
if i ever let love go
because the hatred and the whisperings
become a phantom dictate i o-
bey in lieu of impulse and realities
(the blossoming flamingos of my
wild mimosa trees)
then let love freeze me
out.
(from i must become a menace to my enemies)
Stichwörter: poetry
My heart is not peripheral to me.
June JordanIf you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable.
June JordanWe are the ones we have been waiting for.
June JordanI am not wrong: Wrong is not my name
My name is my own my own my own
and I can’t tell you who the hell set things up like this
but I can tell you that from now on my resistance
my simple and daily and nightly self-determination
may very well cost you your life
Stichwörter: poetry poem self-determination a-poem-about-my-rights
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And who will join this standing up
and the ones who stood without sweet company
will sing and sing
back into the mountains and
if necessary
even under the sea:
we are the ones we have been waiting for.
And then I understood that the answer is yes, yes yes: I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon you, whoever you are, for the outcome of my social, my democratic experience.
June JordanI am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me
June JordanTo begin is no more agony than opening your hand.
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