Second Edit: Defeat/Disenfranchised

[Lizzie]

Hi Richard. I have some thoughts for you below.

First Edit:

Defeat -- the title is a little blah. Doesn't tell me much that the poem doesn't. It doesn't make me think, Oh, I need to read that.

Poetry has lost its right to vote, -- in what election?
perhaps it never could, -- why not? What's so special or unspecial about poetry that it's left out?
and reality is just catching up
like wages for women. -- as in, it's not? No, I get what you mean.

The ballot was a blank page. -- should this be in the present tense, since you're saying that poetry, as it is now, has lost the vote? Seems like a tense change from the previous stanza.
The lines erupting a possible revolution. -- not a complete sentence. It would be if you put a comma at the end of the previous line.
Or the white
was white,
nothing else,
meaning the poet should throw herself
under the king's horse now. -- women's activism reference
Then culpability
can be taken by someone else,
while you change the channel, -- I'm confused about who the "you" is. Here it seems as if you're talking to all the people who aren't reading poetry, but the next stanza makes it seem like you're addressing poets, with a jab at their obscurity.
like the post,
click on the video
and laugh.

You,
who think you are as blameless
as you are anonymous. -- if this is about poets being anonymous, it's a strong last line.

Overall, I like it. Or, I think I do, since there's some clarity issues to be resolved. I like the meaning I've made of it, that's more accurate.

Hope this helps,

Lizzie