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From: gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith)
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Subject: Re: Lethal poetry
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>>This is all fictitious.  The _really_ worst poetry in the universe was
>>written by Julia A. Moore of Algoma, Michigan.
>
>No!  The all time worst poetry in any language any planet any universe
>is that written by William McGonagall (1830-1902), from Dundee, Scotland.

  Has anyone thought of randomly sampling net.poems?