Voting day at Stotzky Park
The music fooled me
Into feeling everything was okay,
When I put our little Toyota into the park
At the playground
As the kids’ water boiled over.
We began our adventure over
Acorn pebbled paths.
Autumn zephyrs rustled the leaves
and the breezes of my mind blew
toward the magnolias
Forever green
but now lacking
Their clean fragrant flowers.
The excited screams of swing sets
And slides reflected my monologue
Became the music of my impatience.
Could this country bloom again
It’s clean fragrant blossoms?
poem by Joshua Benedict
written 11/05/2024,
the afternoon of election day
Filed under: election, elections, long island, Long Island Politics, poetry Tagged: | Election 2024, Election Day, Joshua Benedict, Long Island Poetry, Long Island poets, Long Island Politics, Occasional Poetry, Poetry about elections, Poetry about voting, Riverhead, Stotzky Park
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