thanks for sharing, though I will add the context that (1) this was written in 2020, and (2) it’s a small part of a longer, more nuanced piece that is focused on the work *beyond* voting. I shared a more in-depth reflection on it, along with the full poem, here: https://guante.info/2020/10/14/trickortreat/
Your 2024 update linked in that post is beautifully nuanced and well-presented, and full of grace towards people struggling to figure how to make the best out of the choices they're given.
These are marvelous. The zombie apocalypse puts in words something I've wrestled with expressing for years, not just as a political understanding, but for things as mundane as debugging a computer program, and everything in between:
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I hope you are doing as well as possible in these increasingly weird and bad times.
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Perhaps one day there will even be enough, rather than far too many.
Thanks for this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Israeli_protests#:~:text=The%202024%20Israeli%20protests%20are,and%20reach%20a%20hostage%20deal.