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The poem, "I Want a President," written by Myles's friend, the artist Zoe Leonard, was originally meant to be published on the back of a queer magazine that went under. Instead, Xeroxed copies were passed along to friends, who put them on their refrigerator doors, and then later replaced them with postcards after the art journal LTTR printed some in 2006. There was another resurgence in the work's popularity when, during Sweden's 2010 election, a group of artists held a collective reading; other groups have since used it for writing workshops, allowing people to reinterpret the text as they saw fit. Given the way that the piece spread organically, it's something like a pre-internet meme––something shared, copied, and re-interpreted starting way before most Americans had internet connections at home."In Zoe's own words, the stakes are too high this year to fuck around."
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