The Great Grammar Rebellion

What is up with America? What is up with America putting periods inside quotation marks? Let's say I want to write a sentence that ends with the title of my poem entitled "Ode to Jennifer." I'm supposed to put the period inside the quotation marks, but clearly this defies the entire respective purposes of the quotation marks and the period!

Any reasonable person can see that the quotation marks are there to show that "Ode to Jennifer" is the title of the poem. Therefore, nothing should be inside the quotations marks except the title of the poem.

Any reasonable person can see that the period is there to show the end of the sentence. Therefore, nothing should come after the period, because that would mean the sentence had not ended after all. It's like coloring outside the lines.

But our stupid grammar rules - apparently begun around 1776 - state that we should violate the poet's intentions by adding a gruesome period to the title of his poem, thus trampling on the poem's delicate balance and beauty. And these rules also state that we should make a mockery of the sentence by continuing the sentence after so carefully ending it. Not to mention the inexplicable disrespect to the period, of which have made a firm request that we so obviously never intended in the first place.

I refuse to follow these rules. So begins my manifesto. And so begins the great grammar rebellion.