Response #3 (justpat) Sunday, November 19, 2000

 Shall I compare thee to a hanging chad?
 Thou art more stable, and thou meaneth more.
 A paper square brings news both good and bad
 when knocked off cards, or picked up off the floor.
 Sometimes too weak the hanging chad is hung,
 and often are the corners frayed and torn.
 Thus hanging chads are votes that have been sung.
 A pregnant chad?  A vote that died unborn.
 Yet shall this verdant land be ruled by dots
 of paper that are easily misread?
 The presidency is not drawn by lots,
 but by the wishes of the folk, instead.
 
    If counting votes by hand is all we had,
    my stomach's fit to burst with eaten chad.

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