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BELLES-LETTRES-Excerpts from “Low Road” by Marge Piercy

PLEASE SHOW UP JUNE 14th and every protest after to save our country from fascism. Yes, that’s what it is!

Excerpts from Low Road by Marge Piercy

What can they do
to you? Whatever they want.

….

Two people can keep each other
sane, can give support, conviction,
love, massage, hope, sex.
Three people are a delegation,
a committee, a wedge. With four
you can play bridge and start
an organization. With six
you can rent a whole house,
eat pie for dinner with no
seconds, and hold a fund raising party.

….

ten thousand, power and your own paper;
a hundred thousand, your own media;
ten million, your own country.

it starts when you care
to act, it starts when you do
it again and they said no,
it starts when you say We
and know who you mean,
and each day you mean one more.

PLEASE read the entire poem at https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/piercylowroad.html

And visit Ms. Piercy’s blog at https://margepiercy.com/

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