Dr. Karen Elias

Marjorie Maddox

The Resistance Took Its Stance

and refused to support any sentence
until recognized for the phonemes it is. The defiance
of detail had gone on long enough.
"I, too, am a word," it shouted and,
sticking an exclamation in a wayward footnote,
rallied all subordinate territory. Activist,
union leader, A. N. C. E. charter member
(against non-cooperative elitists), Resistance
knew the jots and tittles of strike,
organized until midnight,
passed out placards, took its people
right to the steps of the title, then demanded
(non-violently) an audience with the author.