written in response to the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearings
and for Margaret Atwood's Handmaids
protesters cloaked
in red robes and white bonnets ...
Supreme Court silhouette
FYI: The Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court Hearings Are an Enlightening Sham, John Cassidy, New Yorker, October 14
Added: One Hundred Twenty-Third Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary
for my heroine, former Chicago teacher and activist Beatrice Lumpkin who voted for her first presidential candidate,Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1940 and hasn't missed a vote since.
the President claims
I'm immune from Covid-19 ...
102-year-old
woman in full PPE
casting a mail-in ballot
FYI: Watch CTV's interview with Beatrice Lumpkin who explains why this year’s U.S. presidential election is the “the most important” vote of her lifetime.