Week 5 Comprehensive Assignment

Week 5 Comprehensive Assignment

I look at the list
I realize I'll swing and miss
Is there even a point?

I hit submit
where does it even go?
Does anyone actually know?

Ive heard the electoral college
But of this I have no knowledge
Who picks the professors?
Who submits my work?

It is said that electors give the electoral votes
But the people do not elect the electors
so who knows that I even help elect who I select

 should i just give up
there was no point in me leaving my house
i should have just stayed at home knowing i was a louse.


This poem explores a voter's curiosity into the American Electoral College and the defeat that the voter feels when an answer cannot be derived. The poem asks questions that point toward tyrannical ideas voters try not to contemplate for long, as the answers can easily depress the voters. I exhibit this in the poem both through what I say and through the grammatical conventions that I employ. I begin to stop capitalizing the first word of every line, which is a habit that I see as being lazy or communicating, "I don't care." Additionally, I stop using punctuation at the end of the sentences or in conjunctions. It is not until I feel truly defeated at the end of the poem that I employ a period, which indicates that I am forever done with voting in the political system as I do not believe there is a point in me continuing to vote.