Great McGonegal, eat your heart out!!!
Posted by:
Jazz_Sue (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: May 11, 2008 09:29PM
Does anybody else here get the Daily Mail? (UK newspaper) I buy it cos SOMEBODY has to fight the Commie bar stewards in Whitehall, Fascist rag notwithstanding. Anyway, there's a daily section 'written' by the readers themselves. These donations tend to be from readers of a certain age, presumeably as part of their anti-gaga therapy at whatever care home they've been committed to. Which could explain why the daily 'poetry' offering has to be he WORST DRIVEL EVER WRITTEN.
Why?
a) It goes on. And on. And on. For ever - or so it seems.
b) It always rhymes - in the worst way possible. Da-da-da da-dee da-da, da-da da- da da-da. Da-da-da da-dee da-da, da-da ... you get the picture.
c) IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT SOMETHING SO BORING YOU WANT TO POUR BOILING LIQUID INTO YOUR EARS UNTIL YOUR BRAIN EXPLODES. Hey, I water the garden as well, but for the life of me can't make it amusing or interesting enough to fill 78 lines worth.
d) I pick up McGonegal for comparison, and am immediately immersed in Blake meets Byron meets W B yeats meets ...
e)I used to think Yeats was bad ...
I know these are amateurs, but so are the kids at my local primary school, and they've just had a book published of theirs. It's only on sale to the parents, but it reads GOOD.
It proves I DON'T buy a Fascist rag though, whatever my student friends accuse me of. Mussolini used to exterminate people for crimes like this.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/11/2008 09:31PM by Jazz_Sue.