Forum / Don't forget to Vote

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  Darryl Price

  Sep 24, 06:48pm

  You are voting with your lives all the time. You are voting with your art all the time. You are voting with the look on your faces all the time. But, please, don't forget to also vote in November. It's important because you are free thinkers who have enough empathy to write and create your own stuff. Freedom of self expression, baby! Freedom to choose your own words--in your own words!

  Pencil to Paper
  by Darryl Price

  I am dying to believe the bombs are
  not real. Even though they put their arms all
  around you, they are lying. Even if
  they read you this poem, they are lying.
  Even when they shake hands, they are lying.
  They speak in mousetraps. They are wrong about
  everything. I am your friend and I wish

  you no harm. They sue their own hearts, like a
  hungry fire, to consume everyone
  and also everything. Even if they
  put a hand to your cheek, tenderly, they
  are lying. They're wicked old owls inside.
  That is why I can't be where you are. I
  DO NOT OBEY THEM. Even if they put
  
  their arms around you, they are pretending
  to be naked. Tell me where the pain is,
  point to it. Ah, the house has gone silent.
  The sky is silent. The mountain is so
  silent, Only if you're not listening.
  Would you still like to see everything you've
  seen before? I was the boy who thought you

  were pretty. The rain called to us through an
  open window. I ask because there must
  be some explanation for the madness.
  I'm eating all the beauty I can, but
  it's not enough. The poem won't beat the
  emperor of death. If they lament for
  mankind, they're lying. The hate is the lie.

• 
  Tim G. Young

  Sep 26, 06:31pm

  For me, voting is a breeze in my small town of Clarkdale. I receive my ballot early in the mail and send it right back.

  C'mon now, EVERYBODY!!

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