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Stormy clouds before the wind blew in—
then rain fell in horizontal sheets.
The rain had quenched the roaring campfire,
destroying all hopes of roasting marshmallows.
Hail came,
destroying the objects grouped by the door,
bruising carved pumpkins, un-potting the yellow
chrysanthemums, scattering freshly-baled hay,
skinny, funny scarecrows, dried black corn.
And while the pounding storm shook the house on the hill,
several small children, wearing feet pajamas, holding fuzzy bears,
were huddled together, giddy with fear,
swapping tales of the Hornet Spook Light, that swings,
by way of legend, in the hand of a headless man, far, far away—
and the man down Third Street, behind Safeway, whose
“dog is really a wolf.”
They chattered about Ol’ Henry, who’s nothing but a ’bo
pushing a cart, and the sounds that would follow were
simply October.
“Don’t believe for a second this election is over. Don’t think for a minute that power concedes anything. It’s gonna get nasty, I’m sure, in the next four days,” Obama told a crowd in Columbia, Missouri, on Thursday night.
“They will throw everything at us like they’ve been doing, and we’re gonna have to work like our future depends on it in this last week. You know what? Because it does, and every single young person here tonight — I’ve gotta have every single one of you voting, and you’ve gotta grab five more, all of you, have gotta vote,” he said.
There’s no giving up. You will be hearing from those who support Obama in the days prior to and including Tuesday.
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