My Campaign for Treasurer

I decided to run for some position
on the junior high school student council.

Treasurer, maybe.
No idea.
I think we all kind of knew
it was performative power anyway.
You don’t get to decree
school is cancelled
but you can promise whatever.

I wasn’t a popular kid
and I knew this
and I knew this was really
a popularity contest
more than anything.

I had to give a speech.
I prepared nothing.
I stood up in the gym,
“Vote for me, because you should.”

When they tallied the votes
it was such a blowout
that they didn’t tell me the actual results.
Probably because they thought
it would hurt my feelings.