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JimmytheScratch

Summary: “Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.”

Says Voltaire, who was a great satirist and hilariously anti-Semitic. Let's assume this explains why I hate writing poetry so much that the idea boils my very soul.

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Of great and feeling souls...

by JimmytheScratch

This is when we had to write for some little magazine of works we had to put out for English or something:

Shakespeare Versus Godzilla

Shakespeare stood, alone, British
On the hamlet overlooking Stratford on Avon.
Burning, singeing works of brilliance
Blackened in the laser-nuclear fires
Of the God of All Lizards.

Irradiation killed the Bard.


Gene Kelly Versus The Mummy

The muscular thighs of Gene Kelly
Wrap around the dusty throat of Pharaoh,
Hapshetsut.

The dried larynx snaps, and crumbles into the dancer’s legs.

This is the tour-de-force I turned in when we had to write a huge poetry packet for some reason in sophomore Honors English, with different topics given to us, one of them being "America".....:

America: A Poem
By: Erin Hashert Morris

America
America
America

Poem
Poem
Poem

America
America
America

Poem
Poem
Poem

...As a side note I used to go around to people at lunchtime with a piece of paper in my hands and do poetry readings of this masterpiece (which I could do without laughing and very dramatically). Also, I never got this particular poem back from my teacher so I don't know what grade I got on it...