What would we create?

Native Columbine

it's like being sick all the time, I think, coming home from work, 

sick in that low-grade continuous way that makes you forget

what it's like to be well. we have never in our lives known

what it is to be well. what if I were coming home, I think, 

from doing work that I loved and that was for us all, what

if I looked at the houses and the air and the streets, knowing

they were in accord, not set against us, what if we knew the powers

of this country moved to provide for us and for all the people - 

how would that be - how would we feel and think

and what would we create?

- Karen Brodine, "June 78"