i love the smell of politics in the morning.
the crisp fall air, the frost on all of those big signs, the old ladies telling you that you are at the wrong table.
"but that table told me to come over here. do i need to go back to that table?"
"let me look at the book again."
we looked at the book, then the map, then at my driver's license, then i went to the other table again, then back to the old lady who finally decided that i really could pick up the ballot from her table.
good times.
through all of this, as i went into the little booth and looked at all of those boxes to check off, my mind was on one thing.
sex.
occasionally interupting those glorious thoughts was a rather annoying little question.
who are you going to vote for?
it seemed like an opportune time to think about it, so i began going over everything in my mind.
if kerry wins wolves come and eat my children.
if bush wins i will live in a cardboard box by the end of next week.
my mind quickly became a battlefield of funny bumper stickers fighting against fiery preachers.
christian values vs. free choice of morality
four years of hearing about kerry's three purple hearts vs. four years of a butchered english language.
i thought about what george carlin said, about how either way we are just getting two different versions of the same corporate owned america.
condiments vs. oil.
visions of a pre-emptive strike against A-1 danced in my head.
i thought about how none of the issues really affected me directly.
i'm not gay, or middleastern.
i am not in the military.
i have plenty of stemcells of my own.
my job isnt going to pay much regardless of who wins.
i thought about my mom and dad.
how they swear that john kerry is the devil.
i thought about my girlfriend.
who swears that even the devil is better than bush.
i thought about how no matter which way i vote half the people i know will be pissed at me.
i looked back down at the ballot.
i had filled in a box.
i had voted.
unkowingly, i allowed my self concious to make the decision.
a decision that i am still not sure about.
a decision, i decided, that will go unknown.
i figure most everyone will assume that i voted for the person that they voted for.
i guess we will just wait to see what happens.
1:36 p.m. - 2004-11-02
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