Friday, June 5, 2026

the glacier like vote tally in California

nine days
after the election, California,
continues
to slowly
count the mail in ballots.
the no ID votes.
there's one
woman
at a desk in LA
over a taco
restaurant
flipping through the hand
written notes,
marking down
the votes.
she wets her finger and thumb,
and flips
to the next page
as she eats
a burrito
and drinks a Hard Mike's
Lemonade.
she makes
a mark on column
A or column B.
how much longer,
they ask her,
yelling up the stairway.
soon she says,
soon.
maybe another week.

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