Election Results

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Author: 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

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.


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