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From: goodrum@unc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Lethal poetry
Message-ID: <901@unc.unc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 23:38:36 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 27 23:38:36 1986
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Reply-To: goodrum@unc.UUCP (Cloyd Goodrum)
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Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
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In article <489@ihdev.UUCP> pdg@ihdev.UUCP (55224-P. D. Guthrie) writes:
>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

	Here's one that appeared in Sanskrit, the UNCC literary magazine:


		BAD POEM

	The world is a beautiful palace of despair
	Most of it's water, but some of it's air
	The water is dirty and kills lots of fish
	The air is as foul as a petri dish
	Despair is the prevalent mood of our times
	It fills me with sorrow and lots of bad rhymes
	But I'll live in this palace until I am dead
	And live with despair permeating my head

		*BURMA SHAVE*

	Cloyd Goodrum III
	UNC Computer Science Department