On the Other Side (Pin + Poem Pack)

This pin + poem pack includes an original signed poem letterpress printed onto thick 300# triplex paper + one hard enamel pin. Poem and designs by Christy NaMee Eriksen.  ------  Poem text:   On the Other Side The other day I watched a teenage boywalk across four lanes of traffic with hismiddle fingers in the air just to hug a girl on the other side. Romance can be wild but when I mistakerecklessness for fearlessness I wonder why we were ever taughtthat it should be dangerousto love us Truly, it isn't that brave tothrow yourself into another.I could throw myself intoyouright now,if I was rudeand had nothingbetter to do. Why not instead care for someone the way the light cares for a jagged landscapeor the silver cares for a stream it barely remembersor the gardener cares for a complicated ground, so shy it pools up They hold even the untouchable close,bow down to the precious. my lovers take their shoes off in the house they would never make demands