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Lee Rossi

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_ Poet Lee Rossi invites us into a nightmare, which bears uncanny
resemblance to our reality. _

, Loretta Young-Gautier

 

Last night I was visited by three sisters. They could have been twins,
except there were three of them—the same gray hair, the same pale
face. They asked me if I was planning to vote. They had name tags, the
paper kind: “Hi, I’m .” No Karens in the bunch. I’m pretty
sure one of them was named Atrophy. It was Greek to me. I said I still
didn’t know who I was voting for. I was lying.

 

They told me I should vote for Trump, I asked them why. “Boots on
the moon,” said the one. “I thought that was just a TV show,” I
said. “No, it’s true. And Mars is next. The 51st and 52nd states.
Only Trump can do that.”

 

“The end of disease,” said another. “Since Trump shut down the
NIH and CDC, people have stopped dying of flu and ebola, smallpox,
Dengue fever, you name it. Now we can watch God’s plan unfold
without any human interference.”

 

“Peace in the Middle East,” said the third. “After that last
nuclear exchange, you never hear about fighting there.” 

 

I asked them if they were worried about climate change or the economy.
What about white privilege, mass incarceration? No. Nope. All hoaxes.
What did they think about mail-in ballots. A bad thing, they agreed.
“So you’re voting on election day?” I asked. No, they said, they
couldn’t vote. “Why not?” I asked. They said they were
immigrants and didn’t deserve to vote, but that their husbands
would. Their husbands had been in this country for a long time, almost
from the beginning; they were almost as famous as the Founding
Fathers.  In fact, they were all political consultants. I might have
heard of them: Famine, Pestilence and War.

 

_Lee Rossi is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Say
Anything, from Plain View Press, and has appeared in numerous
anthologies, including Don’t Leave Hungry: 50 Years of Southern
Poetry Review.  Individual poems have appeared in The Southern
Review, The Harvard Review, Poetry Northwest, Beloit Poetry Journal,
and Poet Lore.  He has published reviews in, among others, Poetry
Flash, The Los Angeles Review, Rain Taxi, and Pedestal.  He is a
member of the National Book Critics Circle and a Contributing Editor
at Poetry Flash. He is currently Poetry Moderator at Portside.org._

_More information about Lee can be found on his website:
__www.leerossisez.com_ [[link removed]]_._

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