Welcome to Day 2 of our II Annual Bad Poetry Festival, a celebration of all the putrid prose and stinky stanzas penned by the lousy poets who didn’t get invited to that other poetry festival that’s going on this week in Granada. The ND’s Bad Poetry Festival will run all week online, with the winner announced on Saturday (either by democratic vote or, more likely yet, by sagacious interpretation of public will). The contest is still open, so enter today. Write [email protected] with subject “bad poetry.”
#6 National Flower (Part I)
we all dream about and need,
models of self-esteem, hygiene, cleanliness
we all dream about and need,
a clear horizon
we all dream about and need,
a free and pretty country
we all dream about and need,
love for our sense of self-esteem and respect
we all dream about and need,
love, respect, affection and these values that make us great
we all dream about and need,
continuity of this fraternal project in all of us
we all dream about and need,
to be clean, orderly, neatly kept, loving
we all dream about and need,
to Live Clean, Live Healthy, Live Pretty, Live Well, Live Better
National Flower (Part II)
we are called to mind the beauty,
to respect ourselves, to love ourselves, and to care for ourselves,
we are called to mind the beauty,
clean, neatly kept, and aesthetic, pretty, free, clean, secure
we are called to mind the beauty,
caring for harmony and for the aesthetics of daily life beyond poverty
we are called to mind the beauty,
we can be poor but clean, poor but honorable, with community and nature
we are called to mind the beauty,
We can’t keep converting the parks we open into dumps
National Flower (Part III)
We have to advance the conscience
we have to advance on the material plane,
We have to advance the conscience
service to our fellow man, love and service to our fellow man
We have to advance the conscience
accomplishing the mission in the mission accomplished
We have to advance the conscience
the vision renewing yourself before each new circumstance in History!
We have to advance the conscience
growing with each battle!
We have to advance the conscience
hammering out all the risks, all the crossroads, all the strategies, all forms
We have to advance the conscience
alerting, insisting, advising, beyond us all
We have to advance the conscience
more towards the world and from the world
We have to advance the conscience
in indispensable transcendence
We have to advance the conscience
advance on the spiritual and cultural plane
We have to advance the conscience
our heroes and martyrs, our national heroes
We have to advance the conscience
Thankful, blessed, thriving, from one victory to another
We have to advance the conscience
Christian, Socialist and in solidarity.
-Harry Pantalones
#7 Notes on how to write poems about drinking
Move to a farm.
Seclusion equals longing equals invention – like the suit.
Wear suits.
Poets should always wear suits. Wetsuits even better, what with all the drinking.
Drink heavily.
Also, you’ll need a tuba.
Buy a tuba.
Purchase while drunk. Bury it. Say, “With you, I bury all life’s low notes.”
-Craig Collins-Young
#8 Me So
Heavy breathing and taught skin
Of youths embrace in dance
Rhythmical, thunderous, titillating
New loves tingling touch
Excites and delights in anticipation of
Your next exploration
– J.P Incaviglia
Also bad press goes to hell…
El Boston Globe está a la venta
Malos tiempos para los medios de comunicación escritos. La empresa «The New York Times Company» ha anunciado que está decidida a vender su división «New England Media Group», que incluye entre otras publicaciones el diario «The Boston Globe», con el fin de centrar su negocio en la cabecera que le da nombre.
«Nuestro plan de vender New England Media Group demuestra nuestro compromiso de centrar nuestra estrategia e inversiones en el New York Times y su periodismo», dijo el presidente y consejero delegado de la compañía, Mark Thompson, en un comunicado.
Thompson, que se hizo con las riendas de la empresa en noviembre pasado proveniente de la BBC, añadió que las «diferencias» entre ese grupo de medios y el New York Times «nos hacen creer que una venta es lo mejor para estas propiedades y para los empleados que trabajan para ellas, así como para nuestros accionistas».
Here is my humble contribution to your outstandingly good “Bad Poetry Festival” One can only hope to be as bad as you. These are inspired in some rather “good” characters of Our Beloved Nicaragua.
I
There is a fat pig named Roberto
He wrote, “The Scumbag’s Manifesto”
With his good friend Daniel
He runs a Cartel
together they rob the elections.
II
The wife of the president says,
“Say a prayer for Hugo Chavez
because we need his money
I would like a white pony
and a dozen new Mercedes Benz”
III
That woman does not shave her pits
and a bra doesn’t go near her tits
she’s ugly as sin and has hairs on her chin
when she blabbers she always spits
Martha my dear
You must enter
next year.