A light in the darkness: Garth Greenwell live-tweeted the Iowa Caucuses and it was delightful.

Garth Greenwell, he of the very sexy novel, Cleanness, which is built from very powerful sentences, also happens to live in Iowa City. As such, he found himself out and a-caucus’ing last night, as evidenced by his delightful Twitter accounting of what might turn out to be a disastrous night for American democracy (and, consequently, the world!).

Here are some highlights (you should follow Greenwell on Twitter):

On atmospherics:

Hello I am caucusing in a gym, the ambience is very gym-like, colorfully dressed partisans keep waving stickers in my face. pic.twitter.com/f6F37qzhNC

— Garth Greenwell (@GarthGreenwell) February 4, 2020

On emptiness:

There are three chairs with a handmade Steyer sign on them, all three of them are empty.

— Garth Greenwell (@GarthGreenwell) February 4, 2020

On indecision:

The beautiful Buttigieg man is walking directly toward me, he sees my indecision. I am persuadable beautiful Buttigieg man persuade me.

— Garth Greenwell (@GarthGreenwell) February 4, 2020

On youth:

One plus of caucusing in a gym is that children are running around and playing and making lots of noise, this is not a complaint.

— Garth Greenwell (@GarthGreenwell) February 4, 2020

Children are collecting stickers & running around promiscuously bedizened, I approve.

— Garth Greenwell (@GarthGreenwell) February 4, 2020

On the just rewards of participatory democracy (cheese):

But Garth, when you say a lot of post-caucus cheese, how much do you really—

LEAVE ME ALONE YOU MONSTERS pic.twitter.com/uYu0lVd4VZ

— Garth Greenwell (@GarthGreenwell) February 4, 2020

On chaos:

I am heading out to my first ever Iowa caucus. How chaotic will it be? I feel very nervous!

— Garth Greenwell (@GarthGreenwell) February 4, 2020

Reader, it was very chaotic.