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.

image of green lilac bushes with white lilac flowers standing against a bright blue sky

OverTheRainbow

VT

12 years old

Opinion

By OverTheRainbow

Connections

submission for next year's prompts:
Use the NY Times Connections as a writing prompt! Take all 16 or one line of the words generated in there (before it's been solved) and use them in a poem or short story.

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Poetry

By OverTheRainbow

tribute to emily dickinson

they have taken her.
hope.
she is trapped in the great big house made of new money & keys
that open nothing anymore. it is named america.
you can hear her,

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Poetry

By OverTheRainbow

apple

i'll use your name. sweet nothings spill
from well-meaning mouths & shatter on concrete radiating summer sun
right back at you, perfect -- dainty -- shiny with dewdrops. they told me

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