This email came the other day:
"Poetry Contest - No Entry Fees
Enter the International Open Amateur Poetry Contest for your chance to win the Grand Prize of 10,000 Dollars!
Visit us here
Poetry.com 1 Poetry Plaza Owings Mills, MD 21117 "
I have a feeling about this one that I want to try, a la Penn & Teller's Bullshit! show.
I bet that I can send the following really bad poem to this poetry contest and get a favorable response. They will send me confirmation that it is a good poem and worthy of publication. They will send me an order form to order a $40+ book that includes my poem.
Let's try it. I wrote this really bad poem in high school.
Say It Loud
Never say you do love
If you do not mean it.
You will mean it,
Like it or not.
The shrew brought up to fit her role
Without her say.
Find truth first
And love second.
Without the truth, love cometh not.
Soul must be full to burst
And the truth come out
In what sounds like verse.
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