12.09.2008
... to swim in trouble like a muddy river rising
Better, I thought, for me in my rough being
To force makeshift connections, patches, encounters, rows,
Better to swim in trouble like a muddy river rising,
Than to become at last all thesis,
Correct, consistent but hollow
The finished ghost
Of my own struggle.
From "The Homely War" by Marge Piercy
suggested by Kaki
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