One.
Say Donald Drumpf wins the presidency. (He might.)
And say American democracy doesn’t survive the insult. (It might not.)
What comes next?
Two.
End to all climate accords? (Bad.)
End to the pax Americana? (Bad-good-bad.)
Mass deportations, end to free speech, guns on every corner, people of colour herded into, what’ll they call them, “protective enclaves”? (Bad-bad-bad-bad.)
Rise of Canada, under inevitable climate transformations and enlightened global leadership of an incipient Trudeau monarchy? (Good-bad-ish.)
A regional nuclear exchange, accidental or no? (Bad-bad-bad.)
Three.
Don’t like Clinton. Gotta be honest. Huge Obama fan, moderate Sanders fan, would have got on Biden’s wagon. Clinton grates me and I don’t give a flying fuck about the e-mails. (After those years of intrusion? I’d give as little of the truth as I could, for as long as I could, too.) Just don’t like chameleons.
But mostly, maybe 3/4, I like where she stands – now that she stands there – and the choice we got, seems to me, is between a bee-sting and apocalypse.
I watched his nomination speech. Didn’t want to, but I said to me, later this will be history having happened, you watch it. And it was, no exag, fascism.
Expect to find myself, notwithstanding a fat teaching load and renewed job search, pounding the pavement on Clinton’s behalf this fall.
Likeminded friends – please let’s make a Drumpf presidency not happen.
the art of compost 
In Haiku form:
If Trudeau accepts
Cascadia, a province
We’ll act real nice, ‘kay?
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I know it’s not the point of this post, but “renewed job search”?! Don’t tell me you’re thinking of leaving Bham? Is it because we didn’t make you feel as hot as Toronto?
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Ah, no, I want to stay here. I just don’t want to stay an adjunct. So if my book finds a home by this fall, as I hope it might, I’ll be looking for a tenure-track job. There’s a TT position this year at Western (Oliver’s), and I plan to apply for that – but a lot of amazing poets will be applying for that one, so. Life in the academy. Not for the faint-hearted.
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Glad to hear you’ll be sticking around. Western needs you! Good luck with your application, and your book!
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