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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Off the Cuff / My Other Journal #564209 added January 29, 2008 at 6:30pm
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Election Frenzy
What a crazy week in FL! Not a moment has passed without a candidate or his next of kin calling us, with offers of paradise and proofs of their family trees or genome maps.
On top of that, a few days ago, the invasion of the poll and survey takers started. They remind me of "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
When asked, I told a survey taker my choice. He asked who my second choice was. I said his name. Obviously, neither was the candidate he was pushing, because he slammed the phone down with a grumpy hum.
Yesterday, another one called and asked my choice again. When told, he asked, “Is there any way for you to change your opinion and vote for candidate X?”
I said, “No, but I wonder what these questions are really about. I wonder if you are trying to sell me an armchair or if you are trying to bribe me.”
He slammed the phone down.
I know that a certain party is pushing a certain candidate down people’s throats, because the parties always do that. I am not telling the candidate’s name even if I do not think he will make a good president, because I respect him and think that he has nothing to do with what the people who push him are acting like.
Do these people ever think that all this pushing could result in a reaction...a reaction like people leaving the party to become independent or to register with the opposing party?
Tonight, the party games will be over in Florida, and the pajama games will begin all over the place after February 5. I hope the whole thing does not turn X-rated at the end.
At this point, what turns is my stomach.
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