The Essential Poetry List
Posted: October 15th, 2004, 10:00 am
I know many of you frequently wonder: 'What makes a good poem/poetry?' Print this list, carry it with you at all times--and you'll never have to worry again!
Note: This is the only poetry list officially endorsed by both presidential candidates!
1. Good poetry stands out like an eyeball in a bag of jellies
2. Good poetry always carries a needle and camel in its pocket, just in case
3. Good poetry makes you forget, if only for a second, that your fridge isn't connected to the internet
4. Good poetry never needs to take its socks off to count to 15
5. Good poetry keeps Rubik's cube alive
6. Good poetry never sounds like a bagpipe, ever.
7. It's ok now, George W, Captain Poetry is here!
8. Good poetry is rhizomic, tantric, the mattress, the flower, the watcher at the till
9. Good poetry is the way light smells in her hair
10. Good poetry is the self-cleaning oven of the heart
11. Good poetry is possible when you learn to edit poems in Photoshop
12. Good poetry makes a phonebooth an object of desire
13. Good poetry is two elevators passing each other in the night
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15. Good poetry is generally bicubic
16. Good poetry is never better than trail mix
17. You can't make good poetry by smashing pumpkins
18. Good poetry is 13 ways of looking at a blackboard
19. Give a man a good poem, feed him for an hour; teach him to write good poetry, starve him to death
20. Always wear clean poetry, in case you have an accident and are taken to hospital--you wouldn't want the doctors to see your dirty poetry, would you?
Note: This is the only poetry list officially endorsed by both presidential candidates!
1. Good poetry stands out like an eyeball in a bag of jellies
2. Good poetry always carries a needle and camel in its pocket, just in case
3. Good poetry makes you forget, if only for a second, that your fridge isn't connected to the internet
4. Good poetry never needs to take its socks off to count to 15
5. Good poetry keeps Rubik's cube alive
6. Good poetry never sounds like a bagpipe, ever.
7. It's ok now, George W, Captain Poetry is here!
8. Good poetry is rhizomic, tantric, the mattress, the flower, the watcher at the till
9. Good poetry is the way light smells in her hair
10. Good poetry is the self-cleaning oven of the heart
11. Good poetry is possible when you learn to edit poems in Photoshop
12. Good poetry makes a phonebooth an object of desire
13. Good poetry is two elevators passing each other in the night
14.
15. Good poetry is generally bicubic
16. Good poetry is never better than trail mix
17. You can't make good poetry by smashing pumpkins
18. Good poetry is 13 ways of looking at a blackboard
19. Give a man a good poem, feed him for an hour; teach him to write good poetry, starve him to death
20. Always wear clean poetry, in case you have an accident and are taken to hospital--you wouldn't want the doctors to see your dirty poetry, would you?