By David O. Monda
Archives, elections, how do they flow? A river between myth and misremembering? How should we know? The fragile bridge between what is not to be remembered, or more properly––misremembered, and the myth of what should be or has to be.
But is this election season an archive of thought between fake news and fake reason! How should we know what’s fact and what’s fiction, or are alternative facts, facts without reason? Is every election a reason to purge the archive of folk history from past seasons?
Does misinformation become information, if it’s from the archive that keeps elections alive? Is this election a false dedication, has the archive become the myth that makes misinformation?
And to what end do archives bend, when powers that be are stuck in conspiracy? Is this the new reality, one of immigrants dreams becoming fantasy in the trumping of reality? Might Kamala bring glee, by winning the race in style and grace. Or what is the alternative space, apostasy and tragedy?
Yet the archive spills the daunting reality of the possibility of vanity. An election that might never be, all that it could be. How does the republic navigate the river between misremembering and the myth of finality? November will be a true test of what could be. For still eternal hope abounds, that the better angels within each one will give rise to a new and glorious republic.
