Poetry Friday — Vote!

OK, friends.
I hate to beat a dead horse here but it is time to register to vote if you haven’t.

In Texas, this Monday is the last possible date to register.
If you have moved… if your name has changed… if you’ve never voted before…
you have to register in order to vote!

There are number of ways to check your voting status online.
Here’s one — via Google Maps — and here’s another — via Barack Obama’s web site.
(I should note, though, that registering to vote is a purely nonpartisan activity!)

People all over the world fight and cry to win the vote, line up for days and compromise time, work and safety to vote.
We are, um, slightly more complacent than that.
But I don’t think we ought to be.

Voting is an honor, a privelege and a responsibility.
Let’s exercise and fulfill it in record numbers on November 4th.

Hope is waiting for you in the voting booth.
Really.

Hope is a Strange Invention
                         — Emily Dickinson

Hope is a strange invention —
A Patent of the Heart —
In unremitting action
Yet never wearing out —

Of this electric Adjunct
Not anything is known
But its unique momentum
Embellish all we own —

8 Responses to “Poetry Friday — Vote!”

  1. cloudscome

    Would you believe I have had to harass my 21 year old son for months to get him to register? Oy. I just mailed his completed form yesterday. Phew!