Texans Line Up
Milton Jordan
October 27, 2024
The Taylor Daily Press dispatched me daily
to report voter turnout at polling
places countywide based on yesterday’s
posted numbers and today’s line lengths,
strictly warning me to avoid interviews.
Limited to Monday’s opening day lines
stretched beyond marked boundaries into a maze
of candidate yard-signs, I rushed to meet
our afternoon edition deadline,
and wrote only estimates of large numbers.
Surprised, past midweek, by lines still stretching
into signage and high triple digits
posted on doors, I reported possible
records, but The Press pulled my paragraph
on increasingly aggressive poll watchers.
Milton Jordan lives with Anne in Georgetown, Texas. He co-edited the first Texas Poetry Assignment anthology, Lone Star Poetry, Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022.
