with a shadow
could I tell the difference?
could the world?
would the bright talk of parties
be dimmed by the exchange?
and if so, who would notice?
would the fierceness of battles fade?
would laughs have a little less belly to them?
would dances favor the left foot?
would a conceit like this entertain us deeply?
or would we still have a world ready to kill
if you were the wrong color
or worshipped god by the wrong name?
or had another woman as too good a friend?
have a world in which cops get a free pass
to fondle, harass, or kill?
where wars take ten years or twenty
to effect nothing much we can tell?
and make me sometimes wish to exchange
my life for a shadow’s
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