Very Bad Poetry

I think there was once a potential circumstance
under which I would become a writer.
but that prospect has passed;

the patterns of my wordy, pathetic diatribes
are the movements of a jammed drawer

I am overly fond of alliteration
flailing and forcefully fond

sometimes I repeat

my stanzas are heinously inconstant
maybe if I put a little more thought into it
no that would be superfluous
that would be kitschy
I don't care
I care so much I act like I don't care so people will think I'm nonchalant

until discussing the vulgar and tumorous
my work doesn't become slightly humorous.

and rhyming poetry?

well,
thats just stupid

sometimes I repeat
sometimes I pete
sometimes I misspell things
and just sort of leave them like that

because I am ignorant of there spelling

this was a contrived exercise

Eva Gray has published 2 more terrible poems since joining on 30/11/99. Read more of Eva's terrible poetry at the anthology. Here are three of Eva's latest works: