If I could be brave enough and live long enough I could crawl inside the life of every man, woman and child in America. After I had gone within them I could be born out of them. I could become something the like of which has never been seen before. We would see then what America is like.
This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on March 22, 2026, by the Academy of American Poets.
