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Prospective Immigrants Please Note
For the last four-and-a-half years, this poem was taped to the day-job's office door, right over the knob, where I could see it every day as I inserted the key into the lock.
Either you will
go through this door
or you will not go through.
If you go through
there is always the risk
of remembering your name.
Things look back at you doubly
and you must look back
and let them happen.
If you do not go through
it is possible
to live worthily
to maintain your attitudes
to hold your position
to die bravely
but much will blind you,
much will evade you,
at what cost who knows?
The door itself
makes no promises.
It is only a door.
--Adrienne Rich, Prospective Immigrants Please Note
I peeled the paper off the door today and brought it home, where I write to you from the dining room table, lighter by a couple keys and a whole lot of anger.
Life is good.
Either you will
go through this door
or you will not go through.
If you go through
there is always the risk
of remembering your name.
Things look back at you doubly
and you must look back
and let them happen.
If you do not go through
it is possible
to live worthily
to maintain your attitudes
to hold your position
to die bravely
but much will blind you,
much will evade you,
at what cost who knows?
The door itself
makes no promises.
It is only a door.
--Adrienne Rich, Prospective Immigrants Please Note
I peeled the paper off the door today and brought it home, where I write to you from the dining room table, lighter by a couple keys and a whole lot of anger.
Life is good.
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http://rolanni.livejournal.com/684823.html
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(Anonymous) 2011-07-29 01:33 am (UTC)(link)http://rolanni.livejournal.com/2011/06/17/
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Ghod, no. I gave
the idiotsAdmin eight weeks' notice so they could hire someone, I could train her, and there would be no interruption in service.For the car -- did Admin hire someone in time for them to be trained and keep the lights on?
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Heh. I'm betting they haven't even posted their own job description yet.
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Open, Closed or Ajar
After unlocking was the door typically open or closed?
Do you remember the last time anybody commented on the poem?
Re: Open, Closed or Ajar
I viewed it as closed for the day, having unlocked and walked through, with due warning. It is worth noting here that the poem provides a loophole:
there is always the risk
of remembering your name
Once one remembers one's name, all bets are off.
Do you remember the last time anybody commented on the poem?
To the best of my memory only one person ever commented on the poem -- a temp secretary who read everything on my door (of which there was, in rotation, either quite a lot or only one or two comics, in addition to the poem) as part of her prep for taking over the office for a couple days.
Many kudos
Congratulations. And best regards. Barb
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Big congrats for achieving status as full time writer where folks actually buy a lot of your work!
Can't comment on the pome. I'm not good at understanding such.
Also. Let's see if I can post this comment. The site wasn't letting me the last couple of days.
Good luck...as the financial people say....going forward.
C.
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Anger creates knots in shoulders which make it difficult to pick up cats. Looking forward to your full time writing.
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(Anonymous) 2011-07-29 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)Transitions are full of mixed reactions and it speaks profoundly to that.
It makes me re-think my leaving grad school - not that I should
not have done it, but that the grief involved was maybe not all that.
Interesting
Lauretta@ConstellationBooks
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May you find fulfillment and enough income to never need to punch the card again!