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Election Day

from Ready by Jen Chapin

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Election Day

We drive west on Route 80
We join in the parade
Block-printed placards, purpose
Ghosts of barricades
The highway seems hopeful
The numbers loom tall
Past coal mines and strip malls
We'll deliver them all

Neutered by cold clean process
And our clipboard costume
Shared sport talk, shared sandwiches
The roles we all assume
Respectful flirtations
One white plastic folding chair
The crispness of the brown leaves
The pale wilted air

Here is our geometry of wait and see
Don't you wonder what it means
Waiting lines and touch-go screens
Complicity
French fries football comfortable
Simplicity
Love or leave or curse or pray
But be careful what you say

We fuse all our illusions
To these long lolling hours
To dreams of new sneakers
And memories of funeral flowers
To each distracting handout
And styrofoam meal
Leave chanting to the children
Our fury we conceal

Vast temples promise dollars
Quaint churches built on truce
The classrooms of Darwin
The fishes of the truth
Unquestioned contagion
The cult of a simple man
We settle our stomachs
We do what we can

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from Ready, released July 11, 2006

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