Thursday, April 14, 2005
THE PLANETS HAVE ALIGNED
Technorati tag: POETRYThe Hatemongers Quarterly has launched its Second Annual Horrible College-Student Poetry Competition:
The best one so far is:
I'm mulling over the idea of having a First Annual Write A Post For Spitbull So The Warrior Monk Can Continue To Slack Off Contest. What d'ya think?
Naturally, dear reader, fundamental grammatical flaws are a must. Today’s college students may claim they know everything, but they think a semi-colon is a fancier quotation mark. In addition, the poem should convey an irksome all-knowing tone. After all, these kids are 19 years old, and they understand the ways of the world far better than their elders.And, for those of you not up to a poetic exercise, the guys at The Kool-aid Report, those models of anger management, have ordered up a haiku-writing therapy for angry bloggers .
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Contestants need not be college students. Contestants need not detest college students, but it will probably help.
The best one so far is:
Writing lame haiku.So, you can see that the standards are quite low.
Your criticism is true,
But it beats working.
I'm mulling over the idea of having a First Annual Write A Post For Spitbull So The Warrior Monk Can Continue To Slack Off Contest. What d'ya think?
