–For a dear friend, requiescat in pace.

~

Ironies

She asks herself how likely it is she will vote
in the next election, how long she will endure
under this administration

how it feels to be dying as this
president begins his term, the candidate she spurned
more than once before

to think he might outlast her wasn’t what she or
anyone expected, yet here we are and, she says
she won’t suffer all of it

I consider that a blessing, she says


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