Bad Poetry Contest - Authors Revealed! - Games

sp4cetiger

"Wreckless Abandon" is the most painful to read, but this is some excellent refuse all around... except "If Everyone Was a Gummy Bear," which is too good to be in a bad poetry competition.

JMan

I voted Yuck. I really didn't understand anything about it. I would've voted Gummy Bear, but the above post shows the reason why I did not.

Facetious

Gender: Male
Age: 24
Location: Somewhere you've never been

nutso42 wrote:

If Everyone Was a Gummy Bear

If everyone was a gummy bear
We'd still have problems but we wouldn't care
Everything around us, all we see
Would be soft and squishy and gelatiny
Nothing in the world would be unhappy
We would live life would no anxiety
We'd die of diabetes but we wouldn't care
Because the whole world is a gummy bear!

We could dance all night, until the break of dawn
And as bears we wouldn't need to have pants on!
Every single one would have a chance
To partake in a stupid Hawaiian dance

If everyone was a gummy bear
We'd all get along and learn to share
We'd declare war on those stupid gummy worms
Until they surrender and agree to our terms
We'd be their masters, oppressive kings and queens!
And slaughter all of those jelly beans
They'll plead for mercy but we won't care
For now the whole world is a gummy bear!

We danced all night on the graves of our foes
Until their guts squished between our toes
But more came around, without a call
And in our stupor, they killed us all

This is actually pretty good.

Voted for Yuck.

Timhop

Gender: Male
Location: Nomadic South African

In all honesty, half of these poems are better than the lyrics to all the Arcade fire songs I've heard. Really, if you want to hear poetry in a band from the last decade, listen to Guy Garvie from Elbow.

craola
crayon master

Location: pdx

Timhop wrote:

In all honesty, half of these poems are better than the lyrics to all the Arcade fire songs I've heard. Really, if you want to hear poetry in a band from the last decade, listen to Guy Garvie from Elbow.

I'm not too high on Arcade Fire's lyricism either, but I wouldn't call their lyrics "bad".

Out of curiosity, which "half of these poems" are better than all the Arcade Fire songs you've heard? Which songs have you heard?
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Kiki

Arcade Fire do have bad song lyrics Laughing

Some of these poems sung by Arcade Fire would make wonderful songs though. Cool

alelsupreme
Awful.

Gender: Male
Age: 27

Timhop wrote:

In all honesty, half of these poems are better than the lyrics to all the Arcade fire songs I've heard. Really, if you want to hear poetry in a band from the last decade, listen to Guy Garvie from Elbow.

If I ever have to hear Take Off And Landing Of Everything again I will kill every person on Earth.
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Romanelli wrote:

We're all fucked, lads.

JMan

craola wrote:

I'm not too high on Arcade Fire's lyricism either, but I wouldn't call their lyrics "bad".

Out of curiosity, which "half of these poems" are better than all the Arcade Fire songs you've heard? Which songs have you heard?

Jimmy Dread
Old skool like Happy Shopper

Location: 555 Dub Street

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A great pity that this contest got lost in the ether somehow. Have a post-Xmas bump, if only so we can all find out when the men in white coats are coming for the author of 'Yuck' (and I'm not talking about the Polyphonic Spree).
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pa
as it happens

Gender: Male
Age: 44
Location: Italia

noWaxJim wrote:

A great pity that this contest got lost in the ether somehow. Have a post-Xmas bump, if only so we can all find out when the men in white coats are coming for the author of 'Yuck' (and I'm not talking about the Polyphonic Spree).

I was just thinking the same thing...