If you’re worried about politics, you might try Charles Bernstein’s poem “On Election Day.” It begins:
I hear democracy weep, on election day. The streets are filled with
brokered promise on election day. The miscreant’s vote the same
as saint’s, on election day. …
It’s a list of all that is and could be wrong about elections. It’s a gloomy list, but I felt better after reading it. It was as if I’d entered a room with a hundred worrying chairs — but all the seats were taken.
Unable to roost, I moved on.
• Sources: The poem originally was published in Prairie Schooner; University of Nebraska Press, Vol. 83, No. 3, Fall 2009, pp. 159-160. It’s online here:
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/361641/pdf
And here’s the poet, reading his poem:
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