I don't think poets, as poets, have any particular insight into good and evil, but I think poetry can and should be persuasive, and there is no reason to exclude current events and politics from its scope — so I've been trying to write poems for this election. I can't. I'm ashamed that everything I write is overwhelmed by the depth of my outrage against this arrogant and incompetent administration. I feel a doubly a fool since I was taken in by their fear-mongering before the invasion of Iraq.
I've already voted for Kerry, and, for the first time in my life, a straight Democratic party ticket. Please vote for hope and tolerance and against fear and bigotry.
7:07:18 PM
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