Sputterpub's Blog

We used to mark our ballots while away
from home and media, beside the sea,
when we were young and married. We would weigh
the issues and then vote with certainty.

So much has changed. We’re not together now;
we’re old but I have not forgotten how
to make a choice, by research and the thought
of saving all the kids from what we’ve wrought.

At first I scan the pages and put pen
to ovals I am sure about, and next
the candidate and proposition text
is read and some are marked and, third, again
I read and make for each my final pick,
in hopes we’ll cure the body politic.

My artist daughter and my son-in-law,
obsessed with symbols, occupied by themes,
tried posting swastikas as charms, but saw
the Internet accuse them of extremes.
We told them it would happen, for we knew
that though the lucky origin was true,
the shape was foully murdered by the strike
of Hitler and his hideous third Reich.

We’re witnessing a similarity
with current politics – the ruling right
(King Trump and court) insist that day is night,
and devastate what was the GOP.
Republicans are gone – the future story
should name anew or harken back to Tory.