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Re: Ok, here it goes... a few poems....
Posted By: Howard, on host 205.184.139.59
Date: Tuesday, November 23, 1999, at 17:47:42
In Reply To: Re: Ok, here it goes... a few poems.... posted by Sam on Friday, November 19, 1999, at 05:13:27:

> > Hey Sam, maybe we could have a poetry page that reader's could submit to? It's just a suggestion, but I think that a lot of people here have strong writing talents (as seen by the story posts) and you might have a good collection.
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> That's not a bad idea at that. Good thinking.
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> I've long had the idea in the back of my head for an anthology of BAD poetry: deliberately bad poetry that looks like good poetry at first glance, kind of like the prose entries in those bad writing contests. But I never got far enough with it, and I don't think I'd want to churn out enough bad poetry to make it work. It never even occurred to me to make a site with actually *good* poetry.

Maybe it was because good poetry is not as funny as bad poetry. This is, after all, a humor site.
Yes, there are a few exceptions. Ogden Nash wrote good poetry that was funny, and Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote "As Funny As I Can."
Howard

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