Love Poem: Hearsay
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Written by: Xavier Keough

Hearsay

Do you vote your mind
Or court your heart
Acquitting party faithful
Whose lies never grow apart

Do you vote for choice
Or for political extortion
Condemning any candidate
Who decries abortion

Do you vote for jobs
Or rally against illegitimate wars
Picketing the freedoms
Of meat-eating, capitalist stores

Do you vote for education
Or for your ideological slant
Burning a child’s future
For an author’s utopian rant

Do you vote for tolerance
Or against an intangible God
Eschewing the zealotry
Of the Marquis de Sade

Do you vote for security
Or against the rule of law
Extolling revolution
Because government has flaws

Do you vote for independence
Or draw your party’s line
Gerrymandering objectivity
For rancor’s incestuous design

Do you vote for healthcare
Or how much you make
Insuring the suffering of patients
Whom doctors won’t take

Do you love America
Or simply love to hate
Voting for the integrity
Of our democratic state