don't forget to vote

i get another text, the ninth,

saying

tomorrow is election day. don't forget

to vote.

who will you vote for, it asks.

red or blue.

i respond back.

thanks for the reminder.

i wouldn't have know this if you

hadn't of written

again and again, and yet

again.

thank you for the reminders.

is that you mom?

by the way,

who's running this time around,

i ponder,

anyone i know?

what if i don't like both?