[New-Poetry] it's all sh*t

[jforjames at aol.com]

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s1i27535

It was once a byword for romance and sophistication - the literary form of choice for tentative suitors and genteel fops alike, but new research published today has revealed that poetry is, as many had feared, "pretentious, cumbersome and utterly without merit." 


It is news that will devastate emotionally retarded adolescent girls and intense, goatee-bearded coffee shop denizens everywhere. 


The author of the painstakingly compiled 1500 page report titled Poetry: Really, what is the Point? is esteemed Cambridge University professor Ronald M. Smythe, a notoriously straight-talking ex-army officer.


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