November 3, 2020
We’re all on tenterhooks, watching and waiting.
We’re tired of tirades. We’re tired of debating.
All of our liberties turned inside out.
What was once done in peace has turned into a bout.
They storm and they threaten and set up false boxes—
the eagle of freedom brought down by vile foxes.
We can’t vouch for our system when so much goes wrong—
when our national anthem’s drowned out by a throng
of those who think that because they are white,
they are superior and have the right
to put down minorities and to change facts,
their white supremacy pardoning the acts
of looting and burning and intimidation.
These acts being staged with no trepidation
thanks to the POTUS who sits calmly by
and approves of it all from his perch in the sky.
We anticipate violence—fear it’s the ones
sowing disorder who have all the guns.
What is the solution? To arm everyone
and have a big shootout when voting is done?
Increasingly, I fear our cyber connection
has been both a bane and a lethal infection.
The villains know how to make use of it
to foment disaster and cause a big fit.
It reaches out hands to enter our homes.
It slashes and pierces and rabidly foams.
Hiding its poison in all of the cracks—
in viruses, malicious websites and hacks.
Turn out the villains, then work on the system
that welcomed them in and pampered and kissed ’em.
Our system of governance was made to be changed,
lest it be exploited by the deranged.
Enact campaign finance and firearms control,
then stem the electoral college’s role.
Time-worn practices need doing in,
for the robes of liberty have grown too thin.
Threadbare and tattered, she quakes at the blast
of self-serving politicians that tear at the past.
Prompt words today are tenterhooks, anticipate, storm and vouch. Image by Peggy Zinn on Unsplash. Used with permission.
I’m deliberately taking a break from social media today. Fortunately, my Dad said he’s feeling rather optimistic. He voted in-person yesterday and nothing bad happened. The poll workers thanked him for voting and he thanked them for their hard work. When people dropped off their ballots, the poll workers clapped for them!
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I’m trying to send a comment because this is a great post, but WordPress is making it difficult.
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So sorry.. I can see this one. You’ve commented before so shouldn’t have to do anything to comment. I’ve had those problems doing comments on other blogs, too. I try later and they work. Not trying to make it hard on you, Fandango!!
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It’s not just you, it’s every post I go to from my reader!
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Have you contacted the Happiness Engineers?
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Yes. So far, no help.
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But it’s working now!!!
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Not consistently. Not from my reader without having to key in my name, email address, and blog URL.
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That is so maddening. I hate filling in all that stuff and occasionally I have to even with someone I’ve followed for years. I am also having troubles with notifications not showing up occasionally. They are viewable today. Hope your troubles have been solved.
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Sadly, not yet.
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This poem expresses the feelings of so many people right now.
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I swore I wasnt’ going to think about the elections today but it just sorta pops out.
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It really does.
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Chilling, Judy
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