{"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\">Who are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">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\">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\">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\">Their words, their faces, their breath. Listen closely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Who are you? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">You look the same, but different.<br>You sound the same, but different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">I can\u2019t tell. Are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">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\">I need you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Can you help me?<br>Can you help me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">I can\u2019t see it, can you? Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">I can\u2019t hear it, can you? Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Why is this so hard?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">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\">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\">I\u2019ll tell you. No. Show you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">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\">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\">Do you know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Who are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Can you help me?<br>Can you help me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Let\u2019s just go.<br>No.<br>No?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">You want it, you want it so much. It\u2019s yours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">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\">Yes. Who are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><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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