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From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (P. D. Guthrie)
Newsgroups: net.poems,net.jokes
Subject: Re: Lethal poetry
Message-ID: <489@ihdev.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 10:05:33 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 23 10:05:33 1986
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Reply-To: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (55224-P. D. Guthrie)
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In article <2746@sunybcs.UUCP> colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
>> 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"
>-- 

Nope the **really* most absolutely utterly bad poetry comes from a
Scottish poet from Dundee called McGonigle.  If someone has some on hand
they should really post it as it is really a joke, so should fit in well
here.
-- 

Paul Guthrie				`When the going gets weird,
ihnp4!ihdev!pdg				 The weird turn pro'
					  - H. Thompson