Kissing and Voting - a Poem for Friday Writings
Apple Decides; Tells;
or what does it?
Twist the apple stem
she loves me she loves me not
(repeat) She loves me ...
When the stem breaks we will know
I'm tired of this game
I've been tired since the first grade
Led to storm cellar
Show me yours I'll show you mine
Strict Republicans
and Liberal Democrats
We vote, ballots filled
When count is in then we'll know
Majority wins
most of times but not always
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- Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved
- I am linked with Magaly at the Friday Writings #46
- Magaly has invited us to write one piece of poetry or prose from two different points of view.
- Note: With our, U.S., electoral college system of voting the college doesn't always vote the same as the popular majority voters.
- This has happened five times:
John Quincy Adams (1824);
Rutherford B. Hayes; (1876);
Benjamin Harrison ; (1888);
George W. Bush (2016; and
Donald Trump (2020)
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Labels: Friday Writings, Humor(?), Metaphorical Poem {??}, Poem, Syllabic Form, Things to know
posted by Jim @ 9/29/2022 10:52:00 PM
11 comments
11 Comments:
I struggle to understand, from this distance, how that system of voting works. As you point out, the majority doesn't always win...
From a distance of my own (just in a different direction) that system is as mysterious to me as it is to Rajani!
Interesting shifts of viewpoint through the poem.
If the majority vote does not win....it seems to me that it is fairly pointless in bothering with it at all.
from Jim at 4:59 AM -
Note: With our, U.S., electoral college system of voting the college doesn't always vote the same as the popular majority voters.
- This has happened five times:
John Quincy Adams (1824)
Rutherford B. Hayes; (1876);
Benjamin Harrison ; (1888);
George W. Bush (2016; and
Donald Trump (2020)
[ https://www.history.com/.amp/news/presidents-electoral-college-popular-vote ]
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Every nobody deserves election, I think...
The struggle (and the frustration) is certainly real. Sigh.
Jim, I do think the political process at every level has been manipulated to keep the corporatocracy in place. I cringe to think of what's on the horizon with the next presidential election...
I like that you included the facts about the five times the popular vote winner lost. When I was young we twisted the apple stem by alphabet. When it broke, that was the first letter of our future boyfriend's name! Of course, we'd really yank it when we twisted by our crush's initial! Problem for me was my crush's name started with A!
Started with "A" and could never twist another 26 turns to get back. Higher letter guys didn't stand a chance either.
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We snapped apple stems the way Lisa describes. It wasn't really divination; it was a way to drop a hint to the person you wanted to ask you for a date. (Some of the guys were starting to do that too.)
Luckily I didn't have a crush on an A, but there were loopholes for those who did. You could claim the initial of either the first name or the last name. If the stem insisted on breaking on the wrong letter you could say you must have been thinking you "wanted to be with" some relative, or even a project you were working on.
Maybe some girls never learned the trick of getting all the way to W, but I did. J would have been easy.
Something terribly wrong with our voting system. Good one, Jim!
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