Voices
Charles Deemer
Politicians
Los Angeles Times readers submitted their views in verse for a feature dedicated to opinion poetry.
(Anthony Russo / For The Times )
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I met a 90-year-old woman
who told me she quit voting
for politicians on her 76th birthday
and wishes she had done it earlier.
When I asked her why, she
grinned and said, “I don’t want
to encourage them.”
The author teaches screenwriting at Portland State University.
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