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I got up Wednesday and saw
She won Vermont.
Which led me to believe
There was still hope.
But then I saw she lost
Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas
California, Colorado, Massachusetts
And all of the rest
Which led me to believe
He must be
A Master Hypnotist.
Which led me to believe
Vermont is special.
I love Vermont.
I thought about Massachusetts.
Which led me to believe
Maybe the one state that
Voted for McGovern
Had changed over the past 52 years.
Which led me to believe
Maybe it was a good thing
I moved to Arizona.
To get a better handle on things
In a swing state.
Which led me to believe
Maybe I should be talking to as
Many of his supporters as I can
To try to understand
Where their brains have gone.
To look for a cure
Before it’s too late.
Which led me to believe
That this kind of thing
Has happened before
In democracies and the results
Weren’t pretty. Pretty horrific in fact.
Torture, genocide, politicide.
Which led me to believe
November might be the most
Important election in history.
Do or die we might say.
Which led me to believe
We ought to work like hell
To protect what we have.
Which led me to believe
We ought to fight like hell
‘Til the fight is done.
Which led me to believe
The good guys need
To keep on believing.
Gil Hoy is a Best of the Net nominated Tucson, Arizona poet and writer who studied fiction and poetry at The Writers Studio and at Boston University. Hoy previously received a B.A. in Philosophy from Boston University, an M.A. in Government from Georgetown University, and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He is a semi-retired trial lawyer and a former four-term elected Brookline, MA Selectman. Hoy’s poetry and fiction have previously appeared in Tipton Poetry Journal, Unlikely Stories Mark V, Chiron Review, Third Wednesday, The Galway Review, Right Hand Pointing, Rusty Truck, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, The Penmen Review, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Bewildering Stories, Literally Stories, The New Verse News, and elsewhere.