A shadorma after voting yesterday. Not much—but, as Diane Keaton says in one of Woody Allen’s movies, ‘hey, they can’t all be winners.’

Sixteen months
finally at a close
Creamsicle man
can suck it
My ballot is in the box
all filled out and sealed

I will use
the news of his loss
to catch my
cat’s vomit
before it hits the carpet
on Wednesday morning

(20 October 2016—posted October 21st)