Although Blue Collar Review, "Journal of Progressive Working Class Literature," declined to publish "Rubicon," it did send me a very nice, most appreciative, rejection notice from the editor, who spent a whole substantive paragraph explaining the basis for the rejection, and hoping to see more of my poems. I think the problem with "Rubicon" for "progressive" journals is that, while certainly left in content and intent, it's just too oblique for self-styled "progressive' publications, literary journals or not. It's been refused by others as well, but I feel it's certainly good enough for publication, which is why I'm posting on "Politically Incorrect Leftist." Here in Indiana, I knew people who enthusiastically voted for Bernie Sanders in the May 2016 Democratic primary, but when November came around, held their noses and voted for Trump, because they couldn't abide Hillary Clinton. For my part, I couldn't abide voting for Clinton either, so I voted for Green Party candidate Jill Stein--which made no difference, of course, in Deep Red Indiana, which went overwhelmingly for Trump--GF
RUBICON
by
George Fish
He had never voted
Republican in his
life, and had voted
eagerly for
Bernie Sanders in
Indiana’s 2016 primary
last May; but now it
was November, and
he could not bring
himself to vote for
Hillary Clinton.
He stared pensively
at the Presidential
section of the ballot
before him, muttered
to himself, “Hope this
doesn’t go wrong,”
and filled in the circle
beside the name of
Donald J. Trump.
He’d now been
unemployed for the
past several months,
ever since the town’s
last factory had shuttered.
He stared piercingly
at the circle he’d filled in
on the Presidential section
of the ballot for several
very long seconds, then
moved swiftly to fill in all
the other circles on the ballot,
filling in each one beside the
Democratic candidate listed.
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