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

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  • Fiction

    By OverTheRainbow

    The West Wind

    The West Wind is a banker in a smart navy suit and a tie. His dress shoes clack on the pavement; he’s got someplace to be, always someplace to be, rushing to the sidewalk, the subway, the elevator, checking his gold Rolex watch.

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  • Poetry

    By OverTheRainbow

    the river in the woods

    is more of a creek,

    covered in yellow leaves and rotting branches 

    that staunch the flow like a bandage over blood.

    The river in the woods

    probably used to rush

    like its brothers farther north, shrieking

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