Election Night

by Christopher Miguel Flakus

Election Night
Radial glow of the automaton
Growth comes in spurts
This may be our last hour
Weird shadows cripple streetlights
Halogen washes all colors clean
I taste blood, sharp as aluminum
Orange suntan cataclysm
Legalize results
Results first

In New York the crowd chants:
“We hateMuslimss, we hate blacks, we want our country back!”
Is this how
The end
Creeps upon us?
Waves of maddened masses drunk on hate

I’m ashamed
Oh, America
Aren’t you ashamed?

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