Swing States
Why can’t swing states count their votes?
They should have been preparing.
Instead, at their percentage points,
We anxiously sit staring.
Nevada’s six electoral votes
Are hanging there for grabbing
While every news reporter
Keeps on blithering and blabbing.
And what of Pennsylvania,
Also Georgia – almost finished!
My faith in our whole system
Has most surely been diminished.
South Carolina did its count
So why is North so lagging?
Are workers doing all they can?
A lot of tongues are wagging.
We’ve waited almost four long years –
Some hours more won’t kill us
But what I hope is when it’s done
The end result will thrill us.
Copyright © Ilene Bauer | Year Posted 2020
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