The Wolverine Vote

I’m just not sure

What he’s going to do

For me, you know?

I don’t hear him saying

Anything about mutants

There was one question

About mutants

At the last debate

And I just felt like--

That’s it?

That’s all we get?

And we were all lumped in

It was like ‘mutants’

And I’m sitting here, like--

Excuse me

I am not like every other mutant

All mutants are not the same

I have claws

Not every mutant has claws

Some do

But some are born with claws

Mine were surgically implanted

There’s a big difference there

I think they just expect us

To vote for whoever

Like, seems less antagonistic

Towards mutants

Like we have to choose

The lesser of two evils

And I’m just getting really sick of that

Like, I get that one

Wants to put us in camps

And systematically

Exterminate us

And the other

Just doesn’t seem

To like us very much

But in my eyes

They’re kind of

The same

I want someone

Who understands

What it means

To control the weather

Or move things with your mind

Or have blue skin

And move through walls

We talk about climate change

But we don’t talk about

The people in our society

Who can actually make the climate change

Whenever they get angry

And how people are afraid of them

And how it’s not fair

Because it’s not always a question of, like,
Controlling whether we can do

What we do

Like, I don’t always want to get mad

And shred a 2007 Toyota Camry

Into itty bitty pieces

But sometimes it just happens

And I don’t think people

Should make judgments about me

Because of that

It doesn’t make me dangerous

I mean, to cars yes

But not to people

Not to good people

Not to people who are just--

You know, not near me

When I’m pissed off

Also what are these guys going to do

About my sideburns?

Shouldn’t they have some thoughts

On that?

It’s like I’m not even a thought

In their mind

Are there thousands

Or even hundreds

Of people like me?

Maybe--okay, no

No, there are not

But I’m still here

I’m still sort of a person

I’m still deserving

Of protection

And consideration

I’m still terrified

Of really strong magnets

Because I’m worried

I’ll get stuck to them

So maybe I’ll just stay home

When the times comes to vote

Unless one of these guys--

--Probably the one

Who seems ambivalent

Not the one who talks all the time

About wanting me dead--

--Shows me that he cares

That he really cares

Otherwise I don’t know
Why I’d vote at all

I just don’t see

The point