Initial reaction to being asked to help with spoken poetry

This is not an actual work yet, though I may share what I have written soon in another blog later (unlikely, since I find it absolutely fucking boring to even think about writing.) This is a half-rant to kick off having to write this spoken poetry thing we have to do. Literary form of a warm-up, y'know?

The topic proper is "Online Threats Explained: Protect Yourself Today", since this will be our practical for that discussion last month on stuff like computer viruses. It's not chosen by us, just assigned. I don't even know what it entails specifically. However, it confounds me that despite "threats" being plural, they decided to make it just about cyber-bullying. Not just that though, they also disliked me wanting to put reasons as to why cyber-bullying may happen or mirroring aspects of real life cases... because they wanted to make it understandable for the audience? Am I talking to a Netflix executive? Should I die?

Nevertheless, it is still grades I need... It's very hard to try and make myself write something I find so profoundly boring and gutted of any depth or nuance, but that's just prep for adulthood I suppose. So I need to start with what to actually write. Thankfully. they have a rather simple skeleton for the poem they want (no doubt with the heavy help of AI, but whatever at this point.) The whole thing is actually supposed to be quite short, composed of 8 "stanzas" with a song in the middle, which is rather helpful:

First, it starts with this minding her own business. They mention stuff about her being innocent and joyful, or whatever? She talks about being in a happy world, though they specify nothing about her specifically. They repeatedly brought up generality and simplicity when it came to this poem, so perhaps she just has no personality. This is the first two "stanzas," which seems to serve as the "exposition" part of their narrative

Then, it's followed up the "rising action" part, where she is attacked by people through their cellphones. That said, it's only really described as "started to be a little negative," while the insults proper is said to start at the 6th "stanza," the 4th one being the song portion. You could say the 6th to 7th "stanzas" are the "climax" parts, considering the 7th "stanza" is our rather stale main character killing herself. Rather abrupt. in my uninformed opinion as a plebeian who has not killed himself yet. 

Then she gets saved at the 8th "stanza." I have no clue how, when the 7th "stanza" was explicitly described as "death and suicide." Do they revive her? What? Excuse me? They also mentioned... someone clad in armor and lugging around a sword symbolizing some anti-cyber bullying law protecting her. The law meant to protect people only stepping in when everything is already too late? This is actually peak, what? Alas, this is probably just an honest mistake and not some hilarious commentary on the impotence of the government. The 9th is the "conclusion" of this anti-fiction tragedy, which I cannot comprehend how they could wrap this all up.

I specifically put stanzas in quotations, because they somehow range from 2 lines all the way up to a 20 line song intermission like its a play. It's a rather strange way to cut up parts of this narrative, but what do I know. I am a robot and I must print out words people will unenthusiastically "read out loud." Let's just write this and get it over with already.


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