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"Ode to the Voting Booth" or"Voting
Booth Blues!"
"Blue Sonja"
I used to be 'stable', demure, so polite,
So honest. Could not be persuaded to do what's 'not right'.
My righteousness blazed from my soul, all could see
no deception, how small, would get the better of me!
'Surfing' one day, as I hummed a tune,
Happy as a lark, or a meadow in bloom,
I was drawn to a link from my favourite site -
"HAVE YOU VOTED FOR MICHAEL?"
It said, with authority and might!
The day of my fall, my innocence lost!
How could I know what this obsession would cost!
It started so simply, just one vote a day,
No harm done, one 'click' and away.
All went well, and we moved up the poll.
Till suddenly we stopped! The 'BABES' took their toll!
This cannot be! I heard myself say!
To heck with this 'Only one vote, please, per day'!
Oh what has become of sweet, innocent me!
(Log off, then on, vote again, that's the key!)
"Get thee behind me!" ye vile, evil thoughts!
They've created a monster! I'm lost! Lost! Lost!
Ah but June's nearly over, then the polls at an end.
Perhaps I can recover, never again to bend!
But Annie keeps 'renewing' the stupid old things
Have to vote... have to vote!! Give Michael his WINGS!!
© Sonja and Marnie, 2000
