Recommend Me Some Bad Poetry (Need Answer Fast)

Cafe Society
21

According to Google, it’s a pastiche of McGonagall from the BBC’s 1950 radio comedy The Goon Show, so presumably written by Spike Milligan

And it has previously been mentioned on SDMB

22

This poem is a remarkable work that lends itself to a delightful drinking game.

Have one copy of the poem. Tell everyone that it is about a great tragedy, and nobody must crack a smile during its recitation. Pass the poem around, and each person reads a stanza before passing the poem to the next person. The reading, of course, should be dramatic, stirring, full of pathos.

If you giggle at any time, you drink. If you giggle while you’re reading, finish your drink.

Pity the poor fool stuck with reading the final stanza.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45828/the-tay-bridge-disaster

23

This is great. We will definitely be drinking.

24

There’s that Rupert Brooke poem, which Radar attempted to read before being “slaked.”

The damned ship lurched and slithered. Quiet and quick
My cold gorge rose; the long sea rolled; I knew
I must think hard of something, or be sick…

25

From Grosse Pointe Blank:

  • Martin Q. Blank: Do you really believe that there’s some stored up conflict that exists between us? There is no us. We don’t exist. So who do you wanna hit, man? It’s not me. Now whaddya wanna do here, man?
  • Bob: [Pulls out a folded up piece of paper]
  • Martin Q. Blank: I don’t know what that is.
  • Bob: These are my words.
  • Martin Q. Blank: It’s a poem? See, that’s the problem… express yourself, Bob! Go for it.
  • Bob: “When I feel… quiet… when… I feel… blue…”
  • Martin Q. Blank: You know, I think that is terrific, what you have right there. Really, I liked it, a lot. I wouldn’t sell the dealership or anything but, I’m tellin’ ya… it’s intense!
  • Bob: There’s… more.
  • Martin Q. Blank: Okay, would ya mind, just skip to the end.
  • Bob: To… the very end? “For a while.”
  • Martin Q. Blank: Whew. That’s good man.
  • Bob: “For a while.”
  • Martin Q. Blank: That’s excellent!
  • Bob: You wanna do some blow?
  • Martin Q. Blank: No I don’t.
  • Bob: [Hugs Martin]
26

I love that movie so much.

27

Thank you! :grinning:
(I love the Goons. :heart_eyes:)

Small correction - the Goon show was largely written by Spike Milligna (the well-known typing error! :wink: )

28

Thanks everyone it was a great send-off to my friend. I think he’d especially appreciate the dog one.

29

You can’t have bad poetry without The People’s Poet