SUMMONS

A jury summons

came in the mail.

Months ago.                                                  

This week I went

to the Superior Court.
And waited.

To be called. 
To serve. 
For the computer 
to randomly 

choose my name.

I wasn't chosen.

But then I realized…

Every day I have the choice

to summon myself,

like Mohammad Ali did,

to be “the greatest.”
That I have a civic duty

to honor the inalienable rights

available to me 

and my Constitution.

Every day it is 

my choice to create

a more perfect

Union and to decide

and declare

my own State 

of Independence.