Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Inner Fires
At One AM, the moderator--
requested from another town--
announced discussion
closed. Good thing for all
of us had little breath left.
He saw no compromise path
and scheduled a vote
the following week.
That night a landslide
carried away the upper village.
A few day later I happened to meet an
agreeable party at the mud-splattered list
of deceased posted by the town clerk.
Soon, he was pounding my back, most
of the dead on their side: "We've won!"
Labels: local politics
