poetry Election Results

Poet Beau Beausoleil contemplates the horrors which await the American public as a result of the recent election.

Beau Beausoleil
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The knives 

and the 

sharpening 

stones

laid out

in plain

sight

waiting

***

We misunderstood

the length of the nightmare

and those who populated it

brown shirts

black shirts

white shirts

work shirts

Some with red noses

and big floppy shoes

some with weapons

we laughed

until the clown cars

turned back this way

and began to run over

each of us again

with merriment and glee

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Beau Beausoleil is a poet and activist based in San Francisco, California. His most recent chapbook is called, War News (daily poems responding to the first three months of the genocidal war in Gaza), which appeared as a free online ebook published by Agitate! Journal. Forthcoming is a second volume in the War News series, War News II (12/9/23 - 6/3/24), to be published momentarily by fmsbw press in San Francisco.