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

[TheOldMole]

Professor Smythe on Poetry


A learned professor named Smythe
Reviewed thousands of texts and was blithe
"As a waste, it's colossal,
As art it's a fossil,
Let's cut it all down with a scythe."

jforjames at aol.com wrote:
> 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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