by James Schwartz
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America's famously private Amish people are unreachable by phone or email and refuse to have TVs in their homes. But that didn't stop members of the conservative Christian group turning out on polling day in a trend that appears to have helped Donald Trump win Pennsylvania. —MailOnline, November 6, 2024 |
I'm walking down Piquette,
& John R.
Past abandoned Harris-Walz signs,
& ochre brickwork,
On a crisp afternoon,
After the election
In Motor City,
Coffee & Sugar Sweet Donut ™
In hand,
Heading to work,
Past the
Construction workers,
Who shout,
Over their machinery din,
"What the election?!...
I'll tell you what happened with the election...
The Mexicans & those racist ass
Amish people!"
Their laughter,
Carried by the wind,
In our coming Amish Golden Age,
Or
Old Order Apocalypse.
James Schwartz is a Detroit based poet and author of various poetry collections including The Literary Party: Growing Up Gay and Amish in America (2011), Punatic (2019), Motor City Mix (2022) and most recently Some Are and Most Aren't and It's Always Been Like That: Selected Poems 2004-2024 from Alien Buddha Press. @queeraspoetry