PROSPECTIVE IMMIGRANTS PLEASE NOTE

 Adrienne Rich

 Either you will
 go through this door
 or you will not go through.

 If you go through
 there is always the risk
 of remembering your name.

 Things look at you doubly
 and you must look back
 and let them happen.

 If you do not go through
 it is possible
 to live worthily 

to maintain your attitudes
to hold your position
to die bravely

but much will blind you,
much will evade you,
at what cost who knows?

The door itself
makes no promises.
It is only a door.