Election Day
Even with all their
dirty tricks, it looks like the Republicans are going to get a drubbing.
We'll know tonight. I voted this morning at the elementary school behind
my house. When I walked in, there was a yellow line of tape that led back
to the voting area in the library. Bevies of little kids blocked the way
in three places, but I eventually got to the library, where they checked my ID,
handed me a ballot, and told me to get in line. While shuffling toward the
booths, I was able to pull books from the shelves and read them, including one
on witchcraft and one on The Centennial State (that's Colorado, so named
because it was admitted as a state 100 years after the signing of the
Declaration of Independence). The nutcases in Colorado Springs (home to
over 100 conservative Christian organizations) managed to get an anti-gay
marriage constitutional amendment on the ballot. I voted no on that of
course, but all the rest of the amendments as well, figuring what's the point of
a state constitution if you're going to go changing it all the time. The
referenda were mainly about taxes, but there was one for civil unions. The
last sheet of the ballot was for local elections. As I live in Boulder
County, virtually all the people running for office were Democrats, and usually
the only person on the ballot for a given office.
Looks like Britney got
K-Fed up.
Jeffrey, Malinda and I read poems from the upcoming
MMM Volume 7, Number 1 on Dona Stein's
Poetry Show, which Dona does
weekly on KRFC in Fort Collins. It was a
lot of fun and Dona was gracious and professional. Our 17th issue has a
lot of great poets as contributors including Geri Lynn Baumblatt, Michelle
Bitting, Marcus Cafagña, Anne-Marie Cusac, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Stuart
Greenhouse, Claudia Grinnell, Patrick Lawler, David Lunde, Frank Matagrano,
Clairr O’ Connor, Veronica Patterson, Neil Shepard, Alice Templeton, G.C.
Waldrep, Rynn Williams, Kathryn Winograd, and Jake Adam York.
Some nice work in this issue of APR. Yusef Komunyakaa's wry smile graces
the cover and an excerpt from his "The Autobiography of My Alter Ego" starts off
the issue. More on that tomorrow. I have to watch the returns.