The 2,000,000th post game

Ralph Waite was in
A LOVELY DAY TO DIE with Eli Wallach, who was in MYSTIC RIVER with Kevin Bacon.

What did one wall say to the other?

I'll meet you at the corner.

TOMORROW IS BAD POETRY DAY

So was it?

To be honest…

…to this day I don’t know.

But it wasn’t Mary Magdalene.

That much I’ll tell you for free then charge you a quarter.

That’ll be twenty five cents pls.

And

Kurt Vonnegut wrote:
“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

How do you know if a poem is good or bad?
A good poem, if it rhymes, should either use perfect rhymes throughout or use a clear and appealing pattern of near rhymes. Bad poems try for perfect rhymes and fail. Erratic meter. A good poem, if intended to have meter, has a fluent meter that flows gracefully when read aloud.

A poem is “bad” when it lacks a discernible point and sounds like prose. People are led to write a poem because they have been strongly moved by some event. They've experienced a strong emotion, received an insight, and wish to capture the experience in words.

Is rhyming poetry bad?
The biggest reason that “rhyming poetry” has fallen out of favor is that it is often forced and unnatural. Now throw in terrible metrical discipline (or a complete lack of it), which aggravates the sing-song “quality,” and the work will be on rapid express to the rejection folder.

Are poetry topics bad?
The world is full of bad poets — bad poets writing about superficial, temporary topics like politics, bad poets ignorant of economics and neuroscience and quantum physics and any number of other things (you don't have to know about all of these things of course — but you have to know something!