REALLY STINKING BAD POETRY



Self analysis

Parts I & III by Neil Chatterjee
Part II by David Clark 


I.

If you build onto a volcano,
even a hundred thousand levels of skyscraper,
theater,
cinema,
art museum,
international airport,
police station,
neighborhood watch,
and disaster relief service,
will not be enough to make it a safe place to live,
nor will it make it a cultured city.


II.

But if you build on the moon,
no matter how much culture you create,
you still won't be able to breathe.

Unless you live in a bubble.


III.

and if you build on a poem,
no matter how many verses you pen,
your writing will still suck.

Unless you happen not to.




E poerty is the Bomb

by Neil Chatterjee

Free ascociative bits,
e-mailed 'tween caffinated fits,
decoded to mean ,
that life is a dream.

E-poetry brings much aticipation
I open it and meet mutilation;

My head smells like pig snout-
like a pipe bomb that blows your brains out
- after my computer monitor blows out.

After I die,
they'll say with a sigh,
with simplicity and aplomb:
"he said e-poetry was the bomb!"

 


E poerty is the Bomb

by Neil Chatterjee
censored by David Clark

Free
caffinated,
decoded mean
dream.

Eery s mu t
I pen mutilation;

My me lik pig snout-
lik pip bo that bos you rains out
- a termite,
they sigh,
wit simpltan lob
"he sat at hebo!"




Poetry in General

By David Clark

So-and-so died last night. At first
we thought it was a stroke
but then
the doctor performing the autopsy said
he found something solid
embedded in the General's brain. He
took it out, opened
it up,
read it
aloud.

Bad poetry really does
kill.




Rapper

By Neil Chatterjee

Damn
Elian Gonzales
doesn't rhyme with either:
Nine Millimeter
or
Fourty




Ode to the Commode

by Neil Chatterjee

lingual idleness lead to error messages and mild electrical shocks.
lick your palm pilot and see.
unless your tounge is a hotsync cable.
in that case you'll just update your address book.




Stark Contrasts

by Neil Chatterjee


the girlfriend says
Get up!
the DJ says
Get down!
the doctor says
Throw up!
the street fighter says
Throw down!
the SOB says
Shut Up!
the OS says
Shut Down!
the mother says
Dress Up
the father says
Dress Down
the poem says
Nothing at All.



 b i o g r a p h y

Neil Chatterjee and David Clark shouldn't quit their day jobs.





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