Election Day Poems
Exhausted by the Long Campaign
A poem for Election Day (USA) about the requirement to accept the results of an election peacefully: Exhausted by the long campaign, Leveraging what we believe, Emails pounding like hard rain, Checks piling up like autumn leaves ... This right is our sin
Seventy-Three Is Always at the Ready
A number poem for a political activist in honor of Election Day. Seventy-three is always at the ready, Eager to march, to sign, to speak, to sing. Victory’s the goal, but not the point, Even though the time is out of joint, Nor is guilt or self-regard th