{"id":450,"date":"2021-04-28T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T22:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s42\/?p=450"},"modified":"2021-10-18T13:03:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T13:03:20","slug":"in-memoriam-poem-of-remembrance-of-becky-morton-by-elisabeth-gerber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s42\/2021\/04\/28\/in-memoriam-poem-of-remembrance-of-becky-morton-by-elisabeth-gerber\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem for remembrance of Becky Morton by Elisabeth Gerber"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Who are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Who are you, sitting in our midst as if you belong here.<br>Didn\u2019t anyone tell you?<br>The unwritten rules? <br>The expectations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Who are you, entering boldly. And staying.<br>Who are you, taking no heed. Or did you?<br>Why are you here, do you have no other place to sit?<br>Shouldn\u2019t you be over there? Or there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Why do you speak so confidently, as if you knew?<br>Did they tell you?<br>Did you know?<br>Do you know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Their words, their faces, their breath. Listen closely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Who are you? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">You look the same, but different.<br>You sound the same, but different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">I can\u2019t tell. Are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">I know you. You\u2019re that one.<br>I knew I\u2019d find you.<br>But why are you here?<br>You could be there, or there, or there.<br>But you are here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">I need you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Can you help me?<br>Can you help me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">I can\u2019t see it, can you? Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">I can\u2019t hear it, can you? Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this so hard?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Because you want it, you want it so much. It\u2019s yours. So why is it so hard?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Didn\u2019t anyone tell you, the unwritten rules, the expectations?<br>Didn\u2019t anyone tell you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ll tell you. No. Show you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ll show you how to hear but not hear, see but not see, speak but not speak, think but not think, be here but not here. Or there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this so hard?<br>Because you know.<br>Did they tell you?<br>Did you know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Do you know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Who are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Can you help me?<br>Can you help me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s just go.<br>No.<br>No?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">You want it, you want it so much. It\u2019s yours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Didn\u2019t anyone tell you, the unwritten rules, the expectations?<br>Didn\u2019t anyone tell you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Yes. Who are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><br>&#8211; Eliasabeth Gerber, University of Iowa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are you? Who are you, sitting in our midst as if you belong here.Didn\u2019t anyone tell you?The unwritten rules? The expectations? Who are you, entering boldly. And staying.Who are you, taking no heed. Or did you?Why are you here, do you have no other place to sit?Shouldn\u2019t you be over there? Or there? 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