the definition of election day:

sitting in bed close to 7 am waiting for the election tracker to light up. 

sitting in bed close to 8 am doomscrolling through election websites knowing it's all futile now.

sitting on the couch close to 9 am waiting to go to the polls, to mark in little white boxes our future.

sitting in the car close to 10 am waiting to get to the store, waiting to feel like this is completely normal.

sitting in a chair or on the couch until close to the sky's disappearance,

close to the results,

knowing it's all futile now.

a painting of clouds in a purple gradient against a starry sky

OverTheRainbow

VT

11 years old

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    Winter Rain

    Inspired by the poem 'Fog' by Carl Sandburg.

    He comes quietly, night after night,

    soft four-toed footprints in the frosted grass.

     

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    psalm 151

    i would like to write a psalm made of salt dedicated to whomever Lot’s Wife really was.

    for people cannot be made of perfection

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    thanksgiving break

    we try to sleep in over break

    because there's nothing left to do until December anyways

    and it won't really work because dawn always opens my blinds

    and their cat gets the zoomies at 6 but

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