Hey! What's wrong with passionate grapefruit?! I had a strange reaction to the poems -- the ones you posted, Donal -- I was convinced I'd read them before. Parts of them, anyway. "Derivative", I think, is the word. So "You couldn't make it up. Well, uh, someone did." Yes and no.... Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK --- On Mon, 6/6/11, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Bad Poetry Competition 2011 To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Monday, 6 June, 2011, 22:51 Look if I tried to write a bad poem I'd be afraid somebody would find meaning in it and give it a prize and me a fellowship to the Academy of Poetasters in Arcadia ego which is south of Id where they grow passionate grapefruit and the dogs sleep in the sun all day like tired lions before the steps of the Temple of Juvenile Jupiter in the Badlands parched number lands of Euclid and flat as a note from Ulysses' trombone I need a number pick one O! I am so sorry but we have for you this wimp's prize three month's vacation in Samothrace including the Gathering of the Underdogs on Mount Suribachi overlooking the pissgreen sea where Wally Stevens lost his images and all esperanza. We should start a magazine full of hopeless beauty Dun ———————————————— I will get into the spirit of the thing, soon. Robert Paul, having dark thoughts in a green shade Entries (multiple entries allowed) should be presented one at a time and given a title: e.g. "Look". The entry should then consist of two parts (1) A poem or an excerpt from a poem written by a poet. (2) Something written by the entrant, which may bear some resemblance or no resemblance to what is written by the poet. The aim of the competition is to make it difficult to guess which of the two is the real poet.