Election, Plus One Week

rain creases
Spring and footnotes
how the state changes

(autocracy, democracy, a despotism of desire and free will
stuffed into a trunk, transported to —
the gun-free constitution of fists and knives, drill-presses,
unions, assembly lines, beds in a brothel, theatre
at the corner between red lights, music from a shoe box,
guns in the hands of the army)

how the state is
bifurcation to the n degree,
something to vote for,
to disagree about,
to stalemate
with the desires of those
who have a special interest