When it comes to righteous indignation
She makes Arundhati Roy seem timid
At a public reading of The Book of Mev
I made sure she read last reading aloud the last chapter
To mark the occasion of her medical school graduation
I gave her the original of Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine
If I see her once a year for a few hours
I consider it a very good year
For the last year she’s been working
One hundred-hour weeks
The Stoics advised long ago
Know what you can and can’t control
I can buy three sheets of Harvey Milk stamps
Send her reminders of her sri and satyagraha
*Jack Kerouac, to Allen Ginsberg
