One of the really great things about the internet is that it allows you to discover the sort of gems of incredible badness that, in earlier times, would have remained buried. Take this example from a recent DailyKOS diary:
The End To Capitalism (Poem)This poem is to re-enforce people that are from the middle class and poor class to fight capatilism. This poem is dedicated to the real patriots of America. The poem has been created to condition the mind into fighting exploitation. This poem encourages people of all walks of life to fight capatilism. The poem is created to target consumer spending and consumer buying. The reason why Consumers are the Socialist enemies is becuase capatilism only functions when people use their own hard earned money and put it back into the market. The Market is the enemy of the people. The people have no money to spend in the market. They only have credit and when the people ask for better schools, free education, free health care, and a better standard of living it's always denied. So know we deny what Capatilism has always denied us. The Freedom of being Free and the Freedom of being able to Think Freely. Dedicated To The People You!
Trapped in a machine that only nourishes the rich
Like a glitch in the system that hard to catch
And bombs that drop on kids with legs detached
Women, Children, and Men for Oil!
Is this the "Freedom" you bring to the New World?
Amerikkka Now Hides Behind A New Freedom
The one that gives you death instead of Life
Why Don't you just get up and fight?
Stop Wasting your time in Protest and Strikes
The plight of the poor is at an increasing rate
Why don't you allow yourself to be suicidal and late our economy crash?
Let the remains of bodies relapse into Freedom.
Revolution is The Death of the American Stock Market.
Let us join hands and resist temptations, and remove the need to buy from our sight and ears.
This Time we Will Win!
Sing a hymn towards the Federalist Building...
Sing Along,..
Stop, Buying Commodities....hymnnn
Stop, For a minute and call in sick...hymnnn
Stop, for a minute a break a government vehicles glass...hymnnnn
Stop, for a minute and graffiti the Walls of Revolution.AND stop the War...hymnnnn
Stop, for a minute and stop the Market...Hymnnnn!!!
Stop, for a minute and clog up the toilets... Hymnnn
Stop for a minute stop paying your Taxes...Hymnnn!!!
Stop. But Don't stop for a Minute if the poor and middle class create a Revolution!
Stop Buying In the Market
(Demands)
1-Stop the Occupation in Iraq
2-Give the poor and middle more government funded programs
3-Give Schools More Funding
4-Free Education For Everyone!
5-Free Health care For Everyone!
6-Rebuild New Orleans
7-Minimum Wage Increased!
8-Taxation of the Rich in an increased amount
9-Stronger Mandatory Laws on Animal slaughter houses
10-Stronger Mandatory Laws on Environmental pollution (Example (Cars,Factories et cetera)
11-No War on Iran
These are the Demand of the People
Don't BUY anything Demand It!
Now that's poetry.
It gets even better, when a number of distinctly unimpressed visitors in the comments section start pointing out various problems with spelling and political theory, the poetic Socialist responds as follows:
If Your afraid of socialism Kill Yourself Now!
Than you a better of with the wolves. America is dead. It choose Capatilism that's why it died. And if you choose Capatilism they you already are died. Castro economy is growing, education is growing, health is growing. Here in America the only thing that is growing is the Rich's money. So do me a favor and put a good one in if your a traitor to humanity. Thats the truth, facts about it all. No going back measure the systems in affect and while your at it count the embargo. You have to much pride in America's economic system. This system that runs us is shit. Disgusting. And with this War you can expect that its going to get worse. So buckle the fuck up. Cause the poor and middle class people are going to be gunning our way threw to the federalist building for a piece of the cake. Salute, Papa Smurf
If this guy follows his muse and keeps this up, I predict he will be doing guest columns at Pandagon in no time.
Dennis - are you sure you haven't been on the qat again? Are you sure you haven't been channeling one of your multiple personalities over on DailyKOS so you can then be sarcastic about deluded liberal poets?
Is this your "wide stance" moment? I am not suggesting that you are gay, but are you sure you aren't a closet liberal? You seem to spend an awful lot of time at liberal websites for a confirmed Republican these days. If you aren't careful, you could end up having a crush on Amanda - I shudder to think what Buffy might do if that happens.
Posted by: blowback | December 06, 2007 at 07:13 AM
Blowback-
I am neither liberal nor gay.
I am, however, wearing a smashing low-cut taffeta number (designed by Vera Wang) at this very moment. And my shoes? A sassy Jimmy Cho open-toe high heel from this season's collection, no less.
I wish you could see me. I look smashing.
Posted by: Dennis The Peasant | December 06, 2007 at 07:47 AM
In the words of Frank Zappa, "Great Googley Moogley"! That may be the lamest poem I've read ever.
Posted by: DonnieDarko | December 06, 2007 at 09:40 AM
Well, I didn't actually read all of it. My brain kind of turned into jello pudding after a couple dozen lines. When I got to the hymning part I had to stop and take a couple deep breaths. Jesus.
Posted by: DonnieDarko | December 06, 2007 at 09:42 AM
Isn't it great?
I mean, you couldn't sit down and write a poem that bad if you tried.
Posted by: Dennis The Peasant | December 06, 2007 at 10:20 AM
Jimmy Cho? Any serious cross-dresser knows that it is Jimmy Choo!
Posted by: blowback | December 06, 2007 at 11:41 AM
Well,it is good to know, come the revolution and we are up to our eyeballs in shit and broken glass,scrabbling around the ruins for nutritious rodents,there will still be "government funded programs".These obviously funded by the withheld taxes.
Posted by: PeterUK | December 06, 2007 at 11:42 AM
Oh and Muffy not Buffy - my apologies.
Posted by: blowback | December 06, 2007 at 11:45 AM
So much for your invitation to the Christmas party blowback.
Posted by: markg8 | December 06, 2007 at 12:10 PM
I'd love to hear this poem read by Myron Angelou.
Posted by: Satanam in computatrum | December 06, 2007 at 12:23 PM
On what I make, it's Jimmy Cho shoes.
And the dress isn't a Vera Wang, actually, it's by Rauol of Toledo.
Posted by: Dennis The Peasant | December 06, 2007 at 12:25 PM
When I first read it I thought that the person who wrote it was a foreigner who didn't speak English that ran his/her "poem" through a very cheap and bad translation software package. Yikes.
Posted by: Dan from Madison | December 06, 2007 at 01:01 PM
Blowback,
dennis is lying. I know for a fact he is a Messkin, Moos-limb, fag darkie who loves to read librul blogs. Why the GWOT hasn't vacuumed him up an renditioned his ass I dunno, but you should be very afeared.
Posted by: Marcus | December 06, 2007 at 01:28 PM
Yikes! I've been outed.
Posted by: Dennis The Peasant | December 06, 2007 at 01:30 PM
Look - I never suggested that Dennis is gay, I made it very clear that wasn't suggesting that Dennis is gay just like I would never suggest that Michelle Malkin is a "Manila go-go girl".
Posted by: blowback | December 06, 2007 at 04:52 PM
Well, now that that's cleared up...
Posted by: Dennis The Peasant | December 06, 2007 at 06:04 PM
I think this is what he's really saying to Malkin:
"Where do they teach you to talk like this? In some Panama City sailor wanna hump-hump bar, or is it getaway day and your last shot at his whiskey? Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here."
Jack Nicholson - As Good As It Gets
Posted by: markg8 | December 06, 2007 at 08:02 PM