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evsp15a That One Hundred Feet

The space between the rhetoric and the machinery
The one place where the community gathers
The truest town square
Every four that one hundred feet

The town square where
if they choose
they talk to their neighbors
about values and war and freedom
persons might rise up and sayI am a citizen of the Republic!”
and cast their vote.

But the town square that I have seen
Is a library
no chatting lest beget influence or break the reverence
My vote is cast in secret recorded silently
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