WilliamStafford9

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Andy is a 43 year old guy from Midland, Michigan, USA

William Stafford's poem 'When You Go Anywhere' in his book of poems titled 'An Oregon Message' is one of my favorites. When You Go Anywhere This passport your face (not you officially, your picture, but the face used to make the passport) offers everyone its witness: "This is me." It feels like only a picture, a passport forced upon you. Somewhere this oval, sudden and lasting, appeared. It happened that you were behind it, like it or not. You present it - your passport, your face - wherever you go. It says, "A little country," it says, "Allow this observer quiet passage," it says, "Ordinary," it says, "Please."