Back in the fall of 2016, I was taking a creative writing class just for fun. This was my election day poem… just for fun 🤓:

Civic Duty

When I walk from the booth tonight,
 I need not feel distress.
I’ll drop the ballot in the box,
 Then smile and say, ‘God bless.'
No news or ranting talk show host
 Will fill me with regret;
As engine turns, release a sigh,
 It’s finished now, why fret?
So home I’ll go, where even though
 They wait, and wait, and wait,
I’ll raise my feet in solitude,
 Márquez, and me, and fate.
And when I rest my weary head,
 My mind will be at ease.
For I can say, without a doubt,
 I did not aim to please.
In silence, then, take time to pray,
 The Lord my soul to keep.
If Trump should win before I wake,
 My soul, Lord, you may take.