this year's bad poetry contest

A little background: Several years ago, when I was teaching creative writing at Carbon High School, I had a bad poetry reading with my students. It's become sort of a fixture in my teaching now because a) it's fun and b) it takes a lot of the fear and mystique out of poetry so people can just enjoy it. So last night in my methods course we wrote bad poems. I thought mine needed its own blog entry.

Just before we all settled in to write, someone quoted a line from "Ten Things I Hate about You." Then someone else made a Heath Ledger comment, which got me thinking Batman. So here's the poem, which is a bad jumprope song:

Jumping Rope on a Stormy Evening

Batman, Superman, Spiderman, the Blob
Which of these heroes broke the doorknob?
I don't know exactly but I just might have a clue,
How many crackers can you chew?
One, three, ten, twelve
Into the garden I will delve.
Five, nine, eight, two
Twenty more jumps and I'll be through.
Unless I trip. Which I just did. Ouch.

Now it's YOUR turn! Write a bad poem and stick it in the comment field!