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I’m Counting My Heart Out for You

(Lyrics found on a table inside a state building in Miami-Dade County)

I'm counting my heart out for you. The votes I am finding are few. We hear the mob right in the hallway heat up, They're talking of the chads that we might eat up. I hope this ends before we all get beat up. I'm looking for voters for you-- Some blacks or a wandering Jew. There aren't enough new hanging chads to suit me. I hope the Cubans don't show up to shoot me. There doesn't seem much I can do, Still, I'm counting my heart out for you.

Calvin Trillin

November 30, 2000

(Lyrics found on a table inside a state building in Miami-Dade County)

I’m counting my heart out for you. The votes I am finding are few. We hear the mob right in the hallway heat up, They’re talking of the chads that we might eat up. I hope this ends before we all get beat up. I’m looking for voters for you– Some blacks or a wandering Jew. There aren’t enough new hanging chads to suit me. I hope the Cubans don’t show up to shoot me. There doesn’t seem much I can do, Still, I’m counting my heart out for you.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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