by Peggy Landsman
The stress I feel from this election
affects my mind and my midsection.
I read the news as vivisection
and no disease escapes detection.
There’s never been a worse selection
of demagogues, the Trump collection,
for public office whose rejection
we must vote for this election.
Peggy Landsman is the author of a poetry chapbook, To-wit To-woo (Foothills Publishing). Her work has been published in many literary journals and anthologies, including The Muse Strikes Back (Story Line Press), Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes (C&R Press), Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology Of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press), SWWIM Every Day, The Ekphrastic Review, and Mezzo Cammin. A full-length collection of her poetry is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press. She lives in South Florida where she swims in the warm Atlantic Ocean every chance she gets. https://peggylandsman.wordpress.com/