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William Carlos Williams’s “Election Day”
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An abandoned grade school in La Prairie Center, Illinois, used as a polling place in 1973. Photo: National Archive
Your typical polling center seldom evokes the poetic. In my neighborhood, we’re assigned a local elementary school. There are student projects lining the walls: family trees, doggerel, pictures. (“Children only!” a volunteer yelled at me when I tried to use the girls’ room—which, fair enough. But everyone in the place was over eighteen.)
Enter William Carlos Williams. His “Election Day,” from 1941, is spare and sardonic; vote before reading.
Warm sun, quiet air
an old man sitsin the doorway of
a broken house—boards for windows
plaster fallingfrom between the stones
and strokes the headof a spotted dog
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