Count the votes . . .

      Today I have been thinking about election results and the role that non-voters have in deciding elections and I have shaped my words into the following syllable-count triangle:

          Count
          the votes.
          Elections
          are decided
          by we who vote -- and
          also by those who don't!  

Also on my mind today, some words from the poem "Numbers" by Mary Cornish; here is the opening stanza:

          I like the generosity of numbers.
          The way, for example,
          they are willing to count
          anything or anyone:
          two pickles, one door to the room,
          eight dancers dressed as swans.

Cornish's complete poem is available at this link -- "Numbers" is Poem 8 in the Library of Congress collection "Poem a Day" -- a collection of 180 poems, one for each day of the school year.  Biographical information about Cornish is available here.