AT's Rhymin' Worm wins Bad Poetry Award

[TJ aka Teej]

From Slate.com:
The grand prize winner of Slate's Bad Poetry Contest, the only entry to win four out of four votes from our judges, goes to rhymworm for his epically awful elegy to the recently deceased inventor of Ramen noodles, "Arigato, Momofuku:"

http://www.slate.com/id/2172458/

[rickb]

Bad? It was brilliant! Or perhaps both.

Still laughing.

Congrats to Rhymworm!!!!!

[hopefulhiker]

This piece of poetry captures the culinary essence of thruhiking....Thruhikers can appreciate the true genius in this work....

[Gaiter]

i agree w/ hopeful and rickb, only a thru or long distance hiker can really appreciate that poem, i see how it can seem soo odd to anyone else, but its pure genius poetry.

[Dr O]

Is it worse than Vogon Poetry?

[TJ aka Teej]

I've been a fan of Rhymin' Worm's poetry since I found his daily stanzas in registers in New Hampshire. Here's the full set of his AT compositions:
http://www.path-at.org/archives/ballad.html
He's also the author of "On The Beaten Path," about his '97 thru-hike.
http://www.amazon.com/Beaten-Path-Ap.../dp/1585740233

It takes skill, I guess, to write bad poetry!

[Monkeyboy]

Is it worse than Vogon Poetry?

Will I need a Babblefish to understand it????

[Doctari]

Awful, yet beautiful. It's copied to my quotes.

I also liked, what I titled (for me) "a reason to go hiking"

Nothing on tv,
Nothing to read.
Think I'll slit my wrists
And watch them bleed.

[SGT Rock]

I don't normally even like to read poety. But this I like. Does this mean I am tasteless?

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

I think that I shall never sin
So long as I eat the lovely Ramen.
A noodle whose hungry mouth is prest
Against my sweet cozy's nuturing breast;
A noodle that powers trodders all day,
And can be prepared in so many ways;
A noodle that may in summer be;
A cold salad's base upon the AT;
Oh noodle that can when snow is so deep;
The soles of cold hikers warmth in them keep.
Poems are made by men like rhymworm,
But only a Dino makes LW say durn.