Did You Vote In A Lizard?

(Yesterday I saw a lizard crossing the road. All the cars halted to let it pass.)

“At noon in the desert a panting lizard waited for history, its elbows tense, watching the curve of a particular road as if something might happen.”

- William Stafford


The lizard thinks it has all the time in the world to wait,
Or it thinks something is going to happen soon.

- Ghostwise

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“The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.” [Ford Prefect]
“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.” [Arthur Dent]
“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”
“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t the people get rid of the lizards?”
“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”
“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”
“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”
“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”
“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?”

– Douglas Adams, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish


Did you vote for a lizard?
Or did you vote for the other lizard?

- Ghostwise