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it's election eve
no matter what happens, the period of the bush administration is finally about to end. phew.
but the fact that there was a second bush term i found, and still find, to be incomprehensible. and i think that, more than anything else, undermined any sense i might have had left that americans are in general able to face reality, think about what's happening, and make coherent choices. so i am somehow not able to entirely believe that what i take to be a catastrophic error will not happen--and that error would be electing another republican administration after 8 years of republicans and the dire straits they have generated. so i'll go to the ridiculous voting place in this tiny massachusetts town and do my bit and hope for the best.
on the other hand, i cannot remember a campaign that was longer and the media coverage of which was more appallingly stupid. that it is nearly over, and more routine stupidity can soon be resumed, is on it's own reason to be cheerful.
jittery but optimistic i guess it reduces to.
how are you faring on this particular 3 november?
what makes you nervous?
what gives you reason to be optimistic?
how are you balancing these aspects?
and what are you planning to do as you await the results?
is there really any reason we have to know by the morning of the 5th what's happened? do you expect we will?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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