Fraiku: Elections

Posted on 2024-11-01 by Bartholomew Barker

Saints don’t run
for public office
but villains do

(for All Saints Day, this week’s Monday Poetry Prompt and the election Tuesday.)

About Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he lives and writes poetry.

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19 Responses to Fraiku: Elections

DD says:

2024-11-01 at 19:29

Hmmmm…
with wicked lies
honesty’s established
and votes gathered

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- Bartholomew Barker says:
  
  2024-11-01 at 21:22
  
  Is that a corollary to the old “repeat a lie enough times and it becomes the truth”?
  
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  - DD says:
    
    2024-11-01 at 23:32
    
    It appears to be a mechanism that Trump uses to establish his sincerity – cartridge loads of shot at diverse targets.
    
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  - Bartholomew Barker says:
    
    2024-11-02 at 19:07
    
    ah… Okay, yes, he tells lots of lies and observes what triggers his cultists.
    
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  - DD says:
    
    2024-11-02 at 20:11
    
    Did I forget to use ironic quote marks?
    
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  - Bartholomew Barker says:
    
    2024-11-02 at 20:38
    
    Yeah, I wasn’t sure how ironic or sincere your comments were so I was treading carefully.
    
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trE says:

2024-11-01 at 20:42

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- Bartholomew Barker says:
  
  2024-11-01 at 21:25
  
  Alas, facts have become a matter of opinion in our modern age.
  
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  - trE says:
    
    2024-11-01 at 21:30
    
    And everything can be twisted time and time again. *Sighs*
    
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luisa zambrotta says:

2024-11-02 at 05:58

What a brilliant poem!!!

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- Bartholomew Barker says:
  
  2024-11-02 at 19:08
  
  You’re too kind, Luisa!
  
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  - luisa zambrotta says:
    
    2024-11-03 at 05:50
    
    You are welcome, Bartholomew!
    It is a pleasure, as always!💖
    
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berniebell1955 says:

2024-11-02 at 09:21

To sweeten the pill of election time?…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvpEuuFwo3A

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- Bartholomew Barker says:
  
  2024-11-02 at 19:10
  
  They used to want us to vote. Of course, back then it was just white guys like me.
  
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  - berniebell1955 says:
    
    2024-11-03 at 05:17
    
    Now – they want white guys NOT like you, to vote.
    
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LuAnne Holder says:

2024-11-02 at 09:32

Interesting take on an All Saints Day prompt. Quite timely.

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- Bartholomew Barker says:
  
  2024-11-02 at 19:10
  
  Thanks, LuAnne! Timing is important in poetry.
  
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Dawn Pisturino says:

2024-11-05 at 16:10

That’s why, personally, I do not believe in political parties or politicians. Neither do I support any political party.

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- Bartholomew Barker says:
  
  2024-11-05 at 20:14
  
  I hope you still vote. The hard work happens between elections when we should be bothering our duly elected representatives on a weekly or even daily basis.
  
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