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Sonnet: Our Recount Blues

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Sonnet: Our Recount Blues

by John Kendall Hawkins

"It ain't over until it's over."

-Yogi Berra


The sad, sad, sad, sad reality is

our system says that Trump need not concede

the election until -- we all agreed--

the four recount states are done. Regardless

of the hurry the Press is in to preen

the new old parrot of the blue deep state

who will squawk on cue about right wing hate,

the norm, unity, decency...Be seen

as a useful tool of the uppercase

restoration of our Democracy,

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