Cade Leebron: #NotTrump Series
ELECTION DISPATCH
Greetings to my ladyfriends from the Soviet-style Hillary poster industriously
peeling itself off my wall. And once more for the people in the front: if you are
neutral in situations you have chosen. The most beautiful women are skilled
at silence, the most powerful men have pre-existing grabby hands. A woman’s
place is the house and the oven and the Senate. The frat party, the open window.
In our power-free blizzard times, we joked ourselves into the USSR, as tradition
instructed. It must have beenthe buzzing generator, the bread line stretching
across our Connecticut campus, apricots from Rosh Hashanah still in my most
beautiful pockets, no kidding. A disabled man gunned down twenty children
nearby and every song became a song I fucking hate. A refund on that political
science degree please, you people in the front? To my ladyfriends and neighbors,
the news is nothing, an able white man with a gun or our presidency in hand is
not of interest, a disabled woman is only crawling poorly. In the early blizzard,
in the blackout, in my bed in late afternoon, in a fake USSR, I am practicing
my skills. Trust me ladyfriends when I say I am finding this political science
degree very useful. I am peeling back the poster, trying to find pre-existing skin
which yes, can only crawl poorly, but skin anyway, that once lived underneath.
Cade Leebron is currently earning her MFA at The Ohio State University, where she serves as Online & Art Editor at The Journal. Her work has been published in Electric Literature, The Boiler, The Deaf Poets Society, and elsewhere. She recently founded the site www.usforpresident.org, and can be found online at www.mslifeisbestlife.com, or on Twitter @CadeyLadey
