Tag: bad poetry
member name: Con Chapman
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November 22, 2009 03:48 PM EST --
News item: A Boston-area radio station began playing Christmas music on Veteran's Day this year, the earliest date ever.
Holiday people, being too cheerful. I'd like to give one or two a good . . .
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October 26, 2007 08:15 AM EDT --
NEW YORK. The small circle of top Wall Street takeover lawyers is a highly competitive bunch, and for good reason. "If you get one big deal, it can mean a multi-million dollar year," . . .
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May 01, 2009 09:05 AM EDT --
It was the form letter that sent me over the edge. "Thank you for submitting your poem to plangent voices, " it began. "Please excuse the form letter, but due to the volume . . .
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September 03, 2009 08:09 AM EDT --
Portable crappers, and phat gangsta rappers
Overdressed lawyers, who think that they're dapper
Blonde second wives who are festooned with bling-
These are a few of my least favorite . . .
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October 21, 2009 06:39 PM EDT --
Where does the foam from the lattes go?
I’m not being flip-I want to know.
When I don’t say “no foam” at the espresso bar
It sticks . . .
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October 29, 2009 07:09 PM EDT --
There once was a young man who from date of birth
Showed promise of one day achieving great worth.
His parents sure thought so, his teachers did too--
He’d really be something . . .
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January 22, 2009 08:58 AM EST --
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the World.
"A . . .
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January 24, 2009 03:55 AM EST --
Call me crazy, but I like to write poetry. For cats.
Cats are a good training ground for poets. They are largely indifferent to poetry, like the overwhelming majority of people, . . .
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December 20, 2008 03:23 PM EST --
Elizabeth Alexander, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, has been selected to read an original poem at President-elect Barack . . .
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January 02, 2009 09:31 PM EST --
(a poem whose title alone is longer than a haiku)
On Boston Common, one fine Sabbath
A horrid sound heard I;
It caused all but the stony deaf
To turn their heads to spy
From whence . . .
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February 14, 2009 11:31 AM EST --
I grew up surrounded by females. My dad owned a women's clothing store. Both of my sisters were girls, and my mom was a woman. We had two female cats whose names--Big Kitty and Baby . . .
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February 18, 2009 08:03 AM EST --
Federal agents are warning leaders at top universities to be on the lookout for foreign spies or potential terrorists . . .
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August 18, 2009 07:59 AM EDT --
One afternoon, while heading home
Upon a hot commuter train,
I fell asleep, and dreamed this poem,
As summer's light began to wane.
I saw a scene of baseball's . . .
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August 21, 2009 07:52 AM EDT --
BOSTON. Jack Flavin is an untenured "gypsy" professor who tries to keep body and soul together by teaching wherever he can among the Boston area's many colleges and universities, but most months . . .
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October 09, 2009 07:48 AM EDT --
Derry, New Hampshire town officials are considering zoning changes that would permit strip malls, fast-food outlets and big-box stores to be built a short distance from Robert Frost's farm.
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January 14, 2009 09:11 PM EST --
LONDON. The position of poet laureate is considered a minor office here as the importance of the British monarchy has faded over time, but members of the Royal Family are nonetheless anxious whenever . . .
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September 01, 2009 08:08 AM EDT --
I'd never been in a building built before 1940. Even my dorm--I'd never seen anything with that much history. Everyone else was really relaxed about it, but I was like tripped out. . . .
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November 28, 2009 05:47 PM EST --
A mastery of poetry was a must for any young Viking. A few Viking poems dwelt on love, but the heroes often undermined their happiness by chasing adventures that separated them from their . . .
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