tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post115940670712741649..comments2023-12-22T10:17:24.280-05:00Comments on Bookpuddle: Something Fishy Goin' On....Ciprianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00254338542624853230noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-1159478957584740002006-09-28T17:29:00.000-04:002006-09-28T17:29:00.000-04:00What a disturbing picture. Even if I ate fish I'd ...What a disturbing picture. Even if I ate fish I'd be afraid to eat that one--or two.Stefaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14943596258182968212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-1159409104802389102006-09-27T22:05:00.000-04:002006-09-27T22:05:00.000-04:00I really wish I hadn't seen that picture...but I h...I really wish I hadn't seen that picture...but I had to write to say that I believe your poem may possibly merit publication in an anthology that is a favorite of mine -- poetry lover that I am.<BR/><BR/>The thing is called "Very Bad Poetry."<BR/>It has such subdivisions as "The Worst Baby Talk Poem" ["Tind friends, I pray extuse me / From matin' any speech, / Betause I is so 'ittle / I ain't dot much for each..."] <BR/><BR/>Other classifications include "The Most Lurid Account of Tragedy," "When Bad Poems Happen to Good Poets," and the linguistically brilliant "The Most Convoluted Syntax." <BR/><BR/>Here are a few sample lines from the final selection (classified as the Worst Poem Ever Written in the English Language, called "A Tragedy" by Theophile Marzials, a poet who distinguished himself by giving impromptu public recitals of his works in hushed library settings:<BR/><BR/>"Death!<BR/>Plop.<BR/>The barges down in the river flop.<BR/>Flop, plop.<BR/>Above, beneath.<BR/>From the slimy branches the grey drips drop<BR/>To the oozy waters, that lounge and flop...<BR/>And my head shrieks, "Stop!"<BR/>And my heart shrieks, "Die."<BR/><BR/>Or the ever memorable "Ode on the Mammoth Cheese" by James McIntyre, whose special genre was. . . odes on cheese.<BR/>"We have seen thee, queen of cheese,<BR/>Lying quietly at your ease,<BR/>Gently fanned by evening breeze,<BR/>Thy fair form no flies dare seize..."<BR/><BR/>See what I mean? I really think if <BR/>there is going to be a Volume II of this book (ed. by Kathryn and Ross Petras) you might have a contender here, Cip.<BR/><BR/>Good luck! <BR/>And don't forget your blog friends when you go on tour promoting your poetry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com