Lots of people have asked us to post the poems we got in our experiment. Here they are without attribution – Want to see who wrote them visit our tweet stream at www.twitter.com/112poems
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Prelude:
Twitter Poems send to @112poems between 20 October 2010 - 1 November 2010
* Halloween night, two days before the vote. A cobbled alley, flickering with torchlight. My own ghost sits beside me. Which of us is sighing?
* She shuffles down the street, her life crammed into a dirty pillowcase. What is Election Day to her?
* They say the political pendulum swings back and forth, left & right. But what if it gets stuck?
* To ensure my roommates vote, I will drive them myself to the polls. And I have hidden all the alcohol and food.
* Not going to vote. Not watching the news. Instead I’ll go looking for love and light up the night. Sheer self-preservation.
* Isn’t it at the tea party that Alice realizes everyone is crazy?
* Special rules for special interests. One minority group after another. They say America is broken. No, it isn’t. Americans just got lazy.
* No sleep the night before. No sleep the night after. Still, it's worth getting up with the dawn on November 2nd. The sunrise needs help.
* Off to the polls. Down the rabbit hole. In just 24 hours the world could be spinning in another direction. Backwards
* I just walked into my son's school & saw the optimistic smiles of the voters. While I am optimistic, I just don't feel like they look.
* Promises made. Promises broken. Tonight the promises get CPR. Long time coming.
* Voting 2010. Feels like Dead Man Walking. I do it anyway. One tiny cell in the centre of my heart must still hope
* Every day is Election Day. This is just the one day we define ourselves with math.
* I can't help but wonder if one person beating another will help me get a job when I graduate.
* All this tea, and what I need is a strong cup of coffee
* Last night's politics conversation with the boyf's roommate ended in flow charts and yelling. And he's going to waste his votes
* I wonder if I have enough tequila in the house for this election night. The dog wants to get drunk.
* The polls seem packed. People are especially noisy, like they are before a wedding. Or after a funeral.
* CNN just used the world "bloodbath" to describe the election. Time for reruns of 'the office'
* Hope is not a form of protection. Just ask Bristol.
* MSNBC should just get rid of the analysts and bring in therapists for viewers.
* Exit polls depress me. Here's hoping they're wrong
* Perfect world 2010: I dreamed it was a new day. And then I got up and voted.
The Day After: November 3, 2010
* The world has gone crooked, wrenched on its axis like a swastika.
* America
* For sale. One large North American nation. Slightly used. Great fixer-upper.
* This is a big one. Enough disappointment and even perfectly nice people become fascists. Germany
* We may not have a functioning government, but our state-of-the-art negative ads are the envy of the world.
* Election 2010. Backlash? Or mid-flight correction? Depends on what "backwards" looks like to you.
@112poems also Cultivated Election-Related Twitter Poetry
* Suddenly feel less uncertain. May go out and create a job today. .
* Angry whites who lost their jobs/homes becuz their jobs were outsourced just voted back in the 1s who outsourced em
* Terms I've heard for last night: "Demaggedon," "Demolition,""Democalypse." Any others?
* About last night: we are a nation of swingers.
* Every morning the silverhaired woman stands on her porch, throwing kisses at dawn, nibbling on whole wheat toast
* The problems with progressives is we take library books to a knife fight - Rep. Anthony Weiner.
* The painful things in our life are only pretending to be permanent.
* A dank drizzle is falling. The slow sweep of the windshield wipers sets the rhythm of my day and I entertain thoughts of a whaling voyage.
* I don't think any of these Republican wins are valid until they SHOW US THEIR BIRTH CERTIFICATES.
* Message of '10: What the wave giveth, the wave taketh away.
At least in Alaska
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