Article 0.5: The Right to Be In-Between

from ‘The European Constitution in Verse’

This article enshrines inalienably the right to alienation

for those who want it: Republicans of the in-between,

celebrants of the glorious prefix trans and all its panoply

of cognates, cousins, second cousins, siblings, half-siblings,

in-laws and out-: the neither/nor, the both/and, the none

of the above, the signatories of the dotted sideline,

citizens of the hard-shoulder, the terrain vague,

the inside-out and outside-in, the bi-, the semi-, the demi-

the ambi-, the half-blood, the half-caste, the rainbow-shades

of grey, the entre-deux-guerres and the entre-deux-mers,

the slipstream and the tributary, the river that changes its name,

the visa that’s all in the vista and the port that’s all in the passing.