“Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.” Each day prior to and now each day since, ELECTION, we, as Americans seem to be living in a poorly written Soap Opera, all with the obvious characters, plots lines of hyperbole, and hyperbolic hysteria, protagonists, antagonists, snake oil, sold as perfume, unexpected twists and turns, and what seems an endless episode after another, as if instead of a Soap Opera, we are witnessing Groundhog Day, after day, after day!
The hourglass is such an effective symbol for the passing of time, isn’t it? We see the sands running through the glass without stopping, knowing that the end is increasingly near. Unlike the clock with its endless cycles, the hourglass has a definite limit. Time is running out! (The Word Is Life/Kevin Dowd) Endless, might be putting it mildly, mind-boggling eternity, overwhelming anxiety, mirages of hope, despair mangled into moments of sheer horror, instant terror, a sigh, a deep breath, running out of breath, and trying to pinpoint finality in the vastness of a universe, filled with at least three dozen alternate realities!
And through all of this madness, a maniac roams the Twitter World, the imaginary land of WHERE, nothing is the truth, and rummages and pillages, even the most stable of sensitivities, hoping to wreck as much havoc, as possible; knowing a cult-like group of brain dead, but hate-filled zombies await to devour any crumb of democracy left undestroyed!
And OH BY THE WAY: We still have 545 caged kids of brown skin orphaned. Joe Biden has established a new record of voters, that of 71 million, and we still are arguing over something as inane as this man who already has received 50% of the American electorate’s choice, needing 270 Electoral College total to win. On this day, the 2nd day after Election Day, the US witnessed the highest number of new positive cases, of the CORONAVIRUS, 102,831 in a day; that in addition to the already, 9.58 million cases, and the 234,000 Americans who have died of COVID-19. The estimated cost of the 2020 Election Campaign is close to 14 Billion dollars. All the while women earn a median income of $42, 238, and mean earn a median income of $52,004.
“Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.” We wait, wish, wonder when anyone will be brave enough from within the Republican Party, to finally tell Trump, stop fucking with Democracy, and by the way, scientists estimate, there are seven quintillion, five hundred quadrillion grains of sand on Earth!
