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From: colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Re: bad poetry
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Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 16:04:22 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  8 16:04:22 1986
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> Someone asked about the famous bad poet of Scotland, William McGonagall, ...

Julia A. Moore wrote poetry that was even worse than McGonagall's.  The
last line of her "Sketch of the Author's Life" is easily the worst last line
of any poem ever written.  Most of her poems were about disasters.  If
there's enough interest I'll post her "Ashtabula Disaster," which I have
by heart.

I add that Mark Twain tried to imitate her poetry and failed--he couldn't
even get close.  

		"Two children died some years ago,
		 Before they went to Chicago."	--Julia A. Moore
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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