for American expats in Canada
Thanksgiving dinner
Trump hats and Biden fly swatters
left on the doormat
Notes:
1 Times Now, October 10, updated: 'Truth over Flies': Joe Biden's campaign sells out 35,000 fly swatters hours after Vice-Presidential debate. For further information, see CNN Business, October 8: The Biden campaign started selling fly swatters right after the debate. They've already sold out.
2 FYI: CBC News, October 5: The push to get (650,000 -- 1,000,000) Americans in Canada to vote in 2020 election.
It might be interesting to do a comparative reading of the following tanka written on Canadian Thanksgiving Day, 2019:
ReplyDeletewritten in response to "How to handle hot-potato election issues at Thanksgiving dinner:"
the Maple Leaf
swinging this way
and that ...
a No Politics sign
on the dining room wall
The following haiku could be read as poetic responses to the "No Politics" Thanksgiving dinner:
Deletethanksgiving dinner
between mouthfuls
pin-drop silence
Chen-ou Liu
thanksgiving leftovers
all the things we
didn’t say
Sondra Byrnes