My Ballot is Broken
I searched everywhere
for a box to check
that would stop the genocide
I wanted to blacken the bubble
that voted no more bombs
or bullets or fighter jets
I would gladly have punched a chad
to elect an end to the shooting
and the torture and the sexual assault
There isn’t even a write-in line
for no more destruction of hospitals
and schools and water supplies
My ballot is broken
busted faulty defective
nonfunctional kaput
It lets me vote only
for genocide or for genocide
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