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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: Lethal poetry
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Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 10:59:33 EST
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> Also from THHGTTG:
> 
> Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in my Armpit One Midsummer Morning
  ...
> 
> 	Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings
> 	37 Wasp Villas
> 	Green Bridge
> 
> The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool.
  ...

This is all fictitious.  The _really_ worst poetry in the universe was
written by Julia A. Moore of Algoma, Michigan.

	Have you heard of the dreadful fate
	  Of Mr. P. P. Bliss and wife?
	Of their death I will relate,
	  And also others lost their life. ...

			"Ashtabula Disaster"
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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