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In Refusing to Rise, a Great Line of Poetry is Written.

Kenneth DiMaggio

“They thought it queer I didn’t rise.
I thought a lie would be queerer.” –Emily Dickinson.

Even if the hysteria was for Jesus
in 19th century Amherst
instead of for the devil in
17th century Salem
one 16-year old girl refused
to rise for salvation in
a classroom filled with girls
who rose on the promise
of going to Heaven but
when the teacher called upon
Emily Dickinson she was already
writing poetry when she replied
how queer it was to be saved
and even queerer to tell a lie
and so Emily stayed seated
while the rest of her corseted
world piously suffocated
(And also probably
when Emily decided
never to be delivered
seeing how piety
puppeted her classmates)

And even if she had yet
to write 1775 poems

in refusing to rise with the rest
of a world that stood up for neither
lie nor truth but simply because
it was decreed

was one of Emily Dickinson’s
finest lines of poetry



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