<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font class="">The Low Road<o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">What can they do<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">to you? Whatever they want.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">They can set you up, they can<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">bust your fingers, they can<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">burn your brain with electricity,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">blur you with drugs till you<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">can’t walk, can’t remember, they can<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">take your child, wall up<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">your lover. They can do anything<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">you can’t stop them<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">from doing. How can you stop<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">them? Alone, you can fight,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">you can refuse, you can<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">take what revenge you can<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">but they roll over you.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">But two people fighting<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">back to back can cut through<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">a mob, a snake-dancing file<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">can break a cordon, an army<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">can meet an army.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">Two people can keep each other<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">sane, can give support, conviction,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">love, massage, hope, sex.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">Three people are a delegation,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">a committee, a wedge. With four<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">you can play bridge and start<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">an organization. With six<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">you can rent a whole house,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">eat pie for dinner with no<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">seconds, and hold a fund raising party.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">A dozen make a demonstration.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">A hundred fill a hall.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">A thousand have solidarity and your own newsletter,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">ten thousand, power and your own paper,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">a hundred thousand, your own media,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">ten million, your own country.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">It goes on one at a time,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">it starts when you care<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">to act, it starts when you do<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">it again after they said no,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">it starts when you say <i class="">We<o:p class=""></o:p></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">and know who you mean, and each<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">day you mean one more.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font class="">- Marge Piercy</font></div></body></html>