8/8/68: I by Adrienne Rich
This has been in my file forever since I was waiting until August 8th to post it.
8/8/68: I
By Adrienne Rich
From here on, all of us will be living
like Galileo turning his first tube at the stars.
Obey the little laws and break the great ones
is the preamble to their constitution.
Even to hope is to leap into the unknown,
under the mocking eyes of the way things are.
There’s a war on earth, and in the skull, and in the glassy spaces,
between the existing and the non-existing.
I need to live each day through, have them and know them all,
though I can see from here where I’ll be standing at the end.
