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Apathy's Elected Mayor

Everyone's talking about crime these days
     So few police, it seems thuggery pays

   No hotter topics than murder or theft
     No matter your politics be right or left

   Though in Chicago one issue's strictly off-limits for talking heads
     Mayoral race apathy - 32.6% turnout - means democracy's dead

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Panagiota Romios

Date: 3/8/2023 1:10:00 PM

I really am at a loss to understand the apathy. I don’t even live there, and 735 deaths upset me and I’d be sure to be working on the campaign for the run off No, never with poets. Life is a big joke to them…and reality.? To be avoided at all costs. Thus we will all be Communists soon and live under mandates. No freedom…only evil people want that, right? Poets hide in the bushes, I think. Pangie.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 3/8/2023 7:34:00 PM

The apathy, according to those who don't vote in Pilsen, is because 'there is no hope.' And maybe they're right, at least not for their part of the city...

Heidi Sands

Date: 3/6/2023 7:51:00 PM

So true . Now, I hear the train company of the Ohio train Derailment is policing the town. Not the town or state police? Bizarre. Good poem Gershon :)

Gershon Wolf
Date: 3/6/2023 8:17:00 PM

Bizarre, surreal -- This country is cuckoo!

Shirley Hawkins

Date: 3/6/2023 4:02:00 PM

Apathetic, Apathy.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 3/6/2023 8:17:00 PM

Apathetically yours, gw

Bj Legros Kelley

Date: 3/6/2023 2:50:00 PM

Well said Gershon, and true. I want so much to find that perfect place. I've imagined, building a sweet little artsy city in the middle of nowhere, off an old highway, maybe even revamping an old ghost town and naming it 'Poetown'. Planting beautiful trees and gardens everywhere, naming them in honor of poets and artists of sweet renown, poet trees? Of course, you'd be the mayor, no apathy in the Mayoral office of Poetown :) I know it's a silly, yet nice dream. Someday things will get better, I look to that blessed hope.

Bj Legros Kelley
Date: 3/6/2023 10:08:00 PM

You have my vote! Now to incorporate the town :)

Gershon Wolf
Date: 3/6/2023 8:14:00 PM

Mayor of Poetown, eh?! Hmm. It'll spruce up my resume too... lol. Thanks for the sweet comment, BJ! :) gw

Eve Roper

Date: 3/6/2023 10:33:00 AM

Very well said, Gershon. I don't have cable, so I don't listen to the news. There is the internet, but I refuse to read the turmoil out in the world. Shame on me. But my life is like being in a sauna relaxing. I use to live in Chicago for about a year when I was 16, wasn't my cup of tea. I love small little small towns with just 3 blocks of shopping and restaurants, around the corner, doctor's office , post-office, and vet. I mean small. blessings friend

Gershon Wolf
Date: 3/6/2023 8:15:00 PM

If you can take the isolation of those 3-block towns, they ARE great. I've lived in and near them... but can't do it on a permanent basis... :) gw