Friday, November 1, 2024

why he votes democrat

my father,
at ninety-six,
is a true-blue democrat.
and it's all
because of JFK
being
a war hero
in the navy.
he can relate to that.
the new frontier,
the vigor,
the promise of it all.
he doesn't
see the difference
now,
how times have changed.
his eyes have blurred,
his ears
deafened.
he's hanging on to what
was
when he was young.
hoping
that the party is the same.


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