102-Year-Old Woman And Mail-In Ballot Tanka Poem by Chen-ou Liu

102-Year-Old Woman And Mail-In Ballot Tanka



One Hundred Twenty-Third Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary
for my heroine, former Chicago teacher and activist Beatrice Lumpkin who voted for her first presidential candidate, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1940 and hasn't missed a vote since.

the President claims
"I'm immune from Covid-19..."
102-year-old
woman in full PPE
casting a mail-in ballot

Thursday, October 15, 2020
Topic(s) of this poem: disaster,election,illness
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