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Ken Baumann's avatar

You have my vote, but only if, for the next election, you make voting into watching a staring contest between all candidates, with the winner not being the person who can hold their eyes open longest, but the person who cries the most in the process

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Mark Leidner's avatar

This idea rocks!!! It has always been very easy to make me cry. Not only will this restore some much-needed humanity to our electoral process, it will also present me, as an easy cryer, with a huge natural advantage. The new Blue Wall?

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Nathan Keller's avatar

Higgledy piggledy mumbling crack

The old ones ride the youngones' back

And they donot get over the chimney stacks.

For being alive and like, nonspecific enough a pet person, your kind of campaign thats the romaines a cleft t poets owe the apple dumplin gangs of the world of the world of the world*

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Max Lavergne's avatar

simply one of the most fantastic pieces of writing i have ever read. thank you mark!

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Strange Ian's avatar

Delightful... I'm delighted by this. Shan't be voting for you though as frankly you sound like you would be a fucking awful Commander-in-Chief.

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Mark Leidner's avatar

Just do me a solid and don’t vote for the other guy.

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Thomas Molitor's avatar

Election over / now throw

your ring into the hat.

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Mark Leidner's avatar

Done! It made a soft, pleasant sound when it landed in the felt recession.

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Philip Traylen's avatar

one of the chinesest poems in recent memory

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Mark Leidner's avatar

one of the the trayleniest analyses

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Threv's avatar

Don’t blame me, I voted for the shredder

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