By Ric Hudgens, for Daniel Berrigan, on his birthday
Daniel Berrigan once gave the commencement address at Xavier High School on West 16th Street in New York.
The story goes he walked to the podium declared “Know where you stand and stand there.” Then he sat down.
Maybe
you don’t know
therefore
find out.
Standing straight
where you are
might be
the first thing.
Then
once you know
where you stand
stand there.
Radical Discipleship 
This poem is one of three “For Berrigan”. Here I am reading all three at the Highlander Center as part of a faith-rooted organizer gathering one week after the 2016 Presidential election: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4HEchPtnCM