the difference between
resignation
and re-signation
or between
a performative rejection
and an even-ing acceptance
is the same as that
which lies between
truth-and-lies and the truth of the lie:
the lie of the truth;
such as the difference between
being so committed to identity as
to fall with it wherever it falls
and hyphenating the possibility of different commitments,
leaping over gaps;
between
It
and the re-main-ing;
between
an empire
and a world;
it is the difference of
saying yes to No
and no to Yes;
between
certainty
and un-certainty.
differences that change nothing
except everything,
of course
where it might be accepted that both
everything and nothing share too much
to be said as
one-thing-or-the-other