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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447955" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Alive Together</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Speaking of marvels, I am alive<br>together with you, when I might have been<br>alive with anyone under the sun,<br>when I might have been Abelard's woman<br>or the whore of a Renaissance pope<br>or a peasant wife with not enough food<br>and not enough love, with my children<br>dead of the plague. I might have slept<br>in an alcove next to the man<br>with the golden nose, who poked it<br>into the business of stars,<br>or sewn a starry flag<br>for a general with wooden teeth.<br>I might have been the exemplary Pocahontas<br>or a woman without a name<br>weeping in Master's bed<br>for my husband, exchanged for a mule,<br>my daughter, lost in a drunken bet.<br>I might have been stretched on a totem pole<br>to appease a vindictive god<br>or left, a useless girl-child,<br>to die on a cliff. I like to think<br>I might have been Mary Shelley<br>in love with a wrong-headed angel,<br>or Mary's friend. I might have been you.<br>This poem is endless, the odds against us are endless,<br>our chances of being alive together<br>statistically nonexistent; <br>still we have made it, alive in a time<br>when rationalists in square hats<br>and hatless Jehovah's Witnesses<br>agree it is almost over,<br>alive with our lively children<br>who-but for endless ifs-<br>might have missed out on being alive<br>together with marvels and follies<br>and longings and lies and wishes<br>and error and humor and mercy<br>and journeys and voices and faces<br>and colors and summers and mornings<br>and knowledge and tears and chance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lisel+Mueller">Lisel Mueller</a><div class=q>
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