Each short stanza starts with the same line, "Election Day morning," but nothing that follows has anything to do with politics. The speaker wakes from racy dreams, finds toothmarks on his soap, hears a factory whistle, trims his toenails, and watches squirrels in the oaks. The repeated opening sets up an expectation of something big, and the poem keeps answering it with small, odd, private details.
The speaker seems restless and a little detached. The watch that is "six days & four hours behind" suggests he is out of step with ordinary time, or simply not paying attention to it. The whistle that "seems to go on forever" adds to that stretched-out feeling. Still, the mood is more wry than gloomy. Woodpeckers "banging their heads" might quietly echo the tension of the day, and the falling acorns end the poem on a calm, natural note. Whatever the election means, the world outside carries on with its own business.