BAD Poetry

from Live Journal: About Poetry

Many people have abandoned poetry, saying they don’t know what’s good and what isn’t. Usually they do know — but they’ve been shown wretched poetry and told it was great, so they’ve lost faith in their own judgment.

First, if you think a poem is horrid, it probably is.
With practice you can learn to elucidate why it is horrid.

Read more HERE

4 Easy Pieces: conceptual poem/quiz

1) womb worker / moon mama rising from the sista circle / warrior of ebony ujamaa dreams / afreakan priestess of night-goddess humanity / blood-flower of the ancestors / my noble violated self /my people / my poems SUCK

2) Workers of Aztlan / peones of capitalismo / we don’t need no stinkin’ gringo badges to sweat bullets in your fields of oppression / pachuco rising in the barrios of the frijole future / nahuatl rose Azteca princesa tortilla vendor / return oh sons of Cuautemotitlan / Tio Sam is having a coronary tú sabes but our espangleesh poetry still SUCKS

3) revaluate revolutionary solutions in revolt / occupy the exploitation / up against the m—-er f—-in’ Walmart credit slaves / kickin’ it on multiple fronts ’cause the game is going down and we getting our war on / greenly sustainable future arise immaculate in the smoke of your shopping malls when our molotov poetry stops SUCKING

4) queer = queenly / we are your fears / winking at transgendered repression in tears / a butch-booted army mascaras toward your dead tradition so flaunt this, breeders / our collective diversity pierced only by fascist family values / skinning your hate alive / undressed in the day-glo San Fran fact / that we write SUCKY SUCKY POETRY

NOW –

MATCH THE MILITANT POEMS ABOVE
TO THEIR INTENDED TARGET AUDIENCE (20 points)

A. Drunken Rethuglican plutocrats in a gay bar

B. Undocumented indigenous sex-workers who play lacrosse at Duke

C. The evil racist Nazi fascist dead white CEO of Chick Fil-A, bless his soul…

D. Tenured North Korean sympathizers teaching World Lit @ Virginia Tech

It’s YOUR TURN now.

Go write some sucky militant poetry.

POWER to the PEOPLE. Unh – huh…

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