[New-Poetry] World's worst poet

[David Bircumshaw]

I think it's quite amusing that the lamentable McGonagall, pelted with 
tomatoes in life and laughed at still in death, has inadvertently 
provoked such a long and argumentative thread, with barely a mention of 
his flatfooted Musings included. 'Twas ever thus, O Sage of Tay.
I do believe one of the before-mentioned Spasmodics was a kind of 
poetical mentor to him.  I object, though, to Daisaku Ikeda's anodyne 
null-poetry being suggested as competition for McGonagall's crown of 
donkey's ears,  Dundee's greatest poet +aspires+  to the heights of 
incompetence, he suffered for his lack of art, by his eternal mediocrity 
we are at last reminded what good poetry is supposed to be, it's no 
wonder his star is on the increase in an age unpoets and their negations 
of language are feted,  when critics who can barely write a paragraph of 
comprehensible English are made lawgivers of taste, he alone still sets 
a standard by which all others can be judged, in him the sanctity of the 
Author is restored, all sincerity is returned to verse, no-one, no-one 
could have written so badly and have ruined their life for it without 
having meant every word, honours he disdained and the world's false 
gee-gaws contemned, and all the would-be managers of culture and minds 
he confutes and thwarts.

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David Bircumshaw
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