Democracy
It's really too important
       to just take a blind wild guess,
and hope like mad the wind that blows
       will clean up all the mess.

Well, I try to pick a liar
       that I just can't tell apart.
From the mobs that they all barrack for,
       it really breaks my heart.

And how on Earth can preferences
       Be really how it works.
They just load your precious vote into
       some other pack of jerks.

So I'm sad to say I'm only here
       to write this little poem.
For the one who has to "count" this vote,
       and now I'm going home.

                                 Brett A. Jones
                                      election day,  2015