Alexandra Corinth is a disabled writer and artist based in DFW. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Artifact, the Mayo Review, Mad Swirl, Thimble Literary Magazine, and Atticus Review, among others. Her poem, “A Guide for the Visitors of Solovetsky Monastery” was chosen as a top 10 winner of the Writer’s Garret’s 2018 Common Language Project.


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Poets Resist
Edited by Asante Keron Hamid
November 19, 2018

Alexandra Corinth

Election Day 2018, Part II

The man handing out paper ballots spits the word millennial at me like chew residue into a plastic McDonald’s cup He says I can tell based on your ID which is the not the vertical driver’s license of the under 21 but a Common Access Card issued by the military and I don’t really know where to begin a response to so much seething wrong so I just say yes I am turn my back pick up the cheap ballpoint pen tug on the thin wire tether and do the terrifying thing he expects a millennial like me to do — summon a wave of blue to engulf the ruins of this city wash the blood from these crumbling streets so that we might at last learn how to swim



Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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