Thursday, June 23, 2016

#172 Kevin Brophy 'Voting'

#172 ‘Voting’
What do the boys do at night?
They put on boots, we believe,
and climb some gates and saunter round
the vehicles that brought electoral
officers to town. They get chased
back over those shaky gates,
they drop a torch,
a spray can of Lynx deodorant
and disappear until it’s time to vote
in the middle of the next day,
when they arrive, barefoot, sandy,
sleepy headed, looking for a pencil,
asking if their names are really listed
there, and how are they spelled this time,

and is there anyone worth voting for.

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