{"id":198,"date":"2019-07-28T14:19:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T14:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/?p=198"},"modified":"2019-09-28T17:35:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T21:35:13","slug":"under-the-microscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/2019\/07\/28\/under-the-microscope\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Election Micros | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

“More often than not, the smaller the seed, the more texture found on its surface.” – <\/em>Keiren<\/em><\/a>
<\/em>image<\/em><\/strong> by Rob Kesseler, from Keiren’s “Microscopic Images Of Seeds,” insteading.com, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

by Hokis, senior editor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

50 states\/50 plates<\/strong><\/p>

Dust of distraction settles.
This now lays on the plate,
on our National slate,
the state of fractioned, unsettled
traction of the too many
unmade, dirty mynds.<\/p>“50 states \/ 50 plates” – “Senate Report Finds Russians Attempted to Hank the 2016 Elections,” by Alison Durkee, Vanity Fair, July 26, 2019. <\/a><\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n

Occupant as The Martyr’s Therapist<\/strong><\/p>


GASLIGHTER! GASLIGHTER!
Weave me a story.
Set my orphaned heart free!<\/p>Politics meets midlife crisis meets Netflix’s: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile.<\/a><\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n

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Dear Flippable Friend<\/strong><\/p>


The high functioning turtle
on his self-proclaimed soci al\/o\/ path
sneaks, peaks his head out
from that (fore)skin(ned) head,
to speak.
All I can do is hope we are
F*’in LIP-ABLEd.<\/p>
A @SwingLeft tweet<\/a> referring to @Fli<\/a><\/em>pable<\/a> and including <\/em>Andrew Prokop<\/em><\/a>‘s article “Mitch McConnell is Breaking the Senate,” Vox, July 16, 2017. <\/a>Three sources in one tweet! WHEW! If that wasn’t enough, one of my friends co-created Flippable<\/em>, so it literally is a letter to a friend from Flippable (Hi! CD!!) AND anyone from one those flippable states.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n

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“More often than not, the smaller the seed, the more texture found on its surface.” – Keiren<\/p>\n

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