Gershon Wolf Poet Couplet

Don'T You Hate When This Happens

You research choices thoroughly
  until your eyes dim blurrily

The issues you're so familiar with
  you know them like your kin and kith

You review the votes each candidate casts
  project their futures from their past

There's nothing that you fail to cover
  over daily papers you fairly hover

You mark your ballot painstakingly
  then forget to mail it, carelessly

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Lindsay Laurie October 31, 2020 at 5:05 PM Hello Gershon … the time is nigh. I hope for you US citizens that the result is taken gracefully. Here in Aus, voting is compulsory or a fine is issued - thank you Gershon - Lindsay Gershon Wolf October 31, 2020 at 5:53 PM Sure hope it's peaceful here. U.S. is becoming more like a banana republic every week, it seems. Thanks, Lindsay. :) gw

Kim Rodrigues October 28, 2020 at 7:11 AM Oh no! Did that happen to you? You can still vote. Oh boy! Gershon Wolf October 28, 2020 at 3:30 PM Ha, ha! I voted early in person. Safer than voting by mail if you ask me. Who knows what diseases lurk on those public mailboxes?! lol. :)

Caren Krutsinger October 28, 2020 at 5:06 AM Oh, man, that would burn me. In Kansas we can log into a website to see if your mail in ballots have arrived AND see if they have been tabulated. My husband and I have checked, and the website says yes and yes. Not sure I trust this though. The state is run by the OTHER party. Gershon Wolf October 28, 2020 at 4:37 PM No kidding. --- The 'Other Party?' Whigs or Tories? Or maybe the 'Green Party.' Good luck! :)

Anne-Lise Andresen October 28, 2020 at 3:57 AM - ... a mega mistake, Gershon - hugs // Anne-Lise :) Gershon Wolf October 28, 2020 at 4:40 PM Glad I didn't make it! :)

Janice Canerdy October 27, 2020 at 7:38 PM Oh, my, I can imagine how hard a person would kick himself it this happened. Well done, Gershon. Janice Gershon Wolf October 28, 2020 at 4:40 PM Yeah. Sounds like something I'd do. That's why I wrote it, I guess. (Voted early in person, though). :)

Linda Alice Fowler October 27, 2020 at 7:06 PM Let's hope this doesn't happen this year! Linda Gershon Wolf October 28, 2020 at 4:39 PM More probably, mailmen will be found who sandbag ballots... They've already found one who dumped a sack of ballots into a dumpster... Some election; some democracy... :) gw