Election Day: November 1968

John Heward

There was no peace--

When Secaucus seceded: it was 
Hudson County who lost
in the fifth while Bergen
was not watching.

Could I bear to see Poor Patty
cry? Would her hubby
quit the track? Does everything
come in threes?
I never thought that Humpty Dumpty
would be Humphrey to me;
but he would pay--my money
was pocketed anyway.

Younger Blood had busied 
an ambassadorial custodian and
Intellect was billyclubbed
in old man Baily's town.

So when the egg fell it hit me
mixed.

Mrs. LeMay might have gleamed
in the spots: there was to be
no bargain with 
the arbitrary hoofing to the 
eighth pole. Her constitution
remained firm. So did mine.

Chet had no cheer--his bags
sagged as he and David looked to
Illinois. There would be neither
interruption nor cancellation
of Regularly Broadcasted
Announcements.

A nation of counted sheep.
No tearing tickets--the horse
and jockey both
win.

It was a photo-finish.