I think that I shall never see a worse example of poetry: Hatemongers’ Quarterly’s fifth annual Horrible College Student Poetry contest is underway. You don’t have to be a student to enter.
(The contest) allows everyone to provide a vicious parody of the politically menacing inept blather favored by our nation’s young adults. And nothing — and we mean nothing — matches lame college poetry in its ability to delight: Vapid clichés; tin-eared doggerel; grammatical mishaps; noxious political hectoring.
What’s not to enjoy? So, dear reader, we formally implore you to send us a submission of some wretched verse, composed in the manner of the functionally illiterate college student
The deadline is May 10 (my mother’s birthday!) at 5 pm Eastern.
As a former tortured, self-doubting wretched-poetry-writing college student, I can assure you that the wretched poetry emitted by the halfway literate is even worse. If possible.