Not a poet and I know it

Years ago, I was talking with a woman online who said that she liked writing poetry. I asked her who her poetic influences were, and she said that she didnโ€™t read any poetry.

Confused and suspecting this was going to go very wrong, I asked to read some of her work.

That was a mistake. Her poetry was something like:

Roses are red.
I have a hat.
I saw a cat.
Dreamsicle caboose.
This and that.
I fell down the stairs.

I literally canโ€™t make my doggerel as bad as her word vomit. I canโ€™t underclock my brain that much. Her โ€œworkโ€ was so terrifically terrible that I just canโ€™t reproduce it. This woman has reached a talent nadir and rented the biggest backhoe should could find and started digging.

I politely signed off and blocked her later. Not worth it.

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