Election Day Seems Sometimes like Which Crook

November 2, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics in honor of Election Day (USA), which takes place this year on Nov. 3.

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An Election Day poem about the importance of voting even when both sides seem corrupt:

Election Day seems sometimes like which crook
Leaves just a slightly less repulsive taste.
Each day the ugly, money-sucking waste
Creates an urge to give 'em all the hook.
There are, of course, many who have died
In defense of this most precious right,
Opening their bodies to the night,
Not bred to have their dignity denied.
Do, then, for their sake more closely look
At each contestant, though with Lysol laced.
Your vote affirms your power to decide.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/electi.html. For more Election Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/electiondaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Politics
November 2: Election Day Seems Sometimes like Which Crook