Very Bad Poetry (off topic)
[ B.O.Y.S.: Boys On Your Screen (The Message Board) ] Written by Sensitive Stephen am 01 Jun 2001 22:45:48:
This is sort of off topic, but I was looking at a funny book today, so I copied a laughably bad poem to share with you all. The poem is about a boy, and you're reading it on your screen, so I guess it can still be suitable for "Boys On Your Screen."
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From the collection "Very Bad Poetry," edited by Kathryn and Ross Petras.
An excerpt from The Happy Little Cripple
by James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
I'm thist a little crippled boy, an' never goin' to grow
An git a great big man at all!--'cause Aunty told me so.
When I was this a baby onc't I falled out of the bed
An' got "The Curv'ture of the Spine"--'ats what the Doctor said.I never had no Mother nen--fer my Pa runned away
An' dassn't come back here no more--'casue he was drunk one day
An' stabbed a man in thish-ere town, an' couldn't pay his fine!
An' nen my Ma she died--an' I got "Curv'ture of the Spine"!I'm nine years old! an' you can't guess how much I weigh, I bet!
Last birthday I weighed thirty three! An' I weigh thirty yet!
I'm awful little for my size--I'm pour' nigh littler 'an
Some babies is!--an' neighbors all calls me "The Little Man!"An' Doc one time he laughed and said: "I 'spect, first thing you know,
You'll have a spike-tail coat an' travel with a show!"
An' nen I laughed--till I looked round an' Aunty was a-cryin'--
Sometimes she acts like that, 'cause I got "Curv'ture of the Spine!"======================
Anybody else care to share their favorite bad poem?
--Sensitive Stephen