Bad Poetry?! Oh-noetry!

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Known also simply as "Oh-noetry", this medium was stumbled upon by curious PILFers (Philosophy in Literature and Film...ers.) on the first Monday of Term II 2005 (Duke East). Outside the computer lab, two members of the class (Skippy and J, to be precise) found a Composition notebook which was mostly empty. The first few pages, however, contained surprisingly awful poetry of a non-TIPster origin.

To give an idea of the original poetry, here are a few lines:

"Something's happened,//something sad.//Something's happened,//something bad."

or

"Shopping: it's not as easy as it seems. It could take five hours to find the pumps of your dreams."

Anyway, we (the Pilfers) laughed some and left the notebook where it was, figuring that the owner would come to find it. When it was still on the table on the following Monday, we "rescued" it. EDIT: I'm pretty sure that Pilfers weren't the ones who rescued it. Mel and Aaron went to the computer lab, and seeing the book, picked it up and decided to keep it. It was then taken back to The Ugly Tree, and the first few poems were born. After that, it was passed around from person to person. Then, feeding upon the horrific nature of these rhymes, we began to write spontaneous and exceptionally painful poetry of our own (to clarify: this was not a PILF-exclusive thing. The notebook was in fact passed around and had many, many contributions from non-PILFers.) It was dubbed "Oh-noetry". Later, when Conrad, Mel, and Kathleen (see The Ugly Tree, the Llama Posse, the Llama-Mama, and More Cowbell) emceed the Talent Show, Oh-noetry was read aloud, much to the delight and anguish of the audience.

Edit: Actually, PILF was responsible for finding the notebook, as I found it on the table, and read it aloud during a computer lab session. Being the roommate of Mel Weyant and a close confidant if not veteran member of the Llama Posse, and a founding member of The Ugly Tree, I circulated the book among my friends as well as classmates. The book of Oh-Noetry expanded and was given awful, awful rhymes by everyone who read it. Kathleen, Mel, and Conrad were co-hosts of the Talent Show and decided to force our merriment upon the unsuspecting TIPster population. There was much groaning and gnashing of teeth. Also laughter. The Oh-Noetry book now resides with Mel in Maryland. Jessie "Skippy" Tanner 4-3-1, 2005

Edit: I think many of the contributers to the Oh-Noetry book were members of Mel's rag, especially as said book had a tendency to get passed around the table and laughed at over dinner. Sample poetry composed by RAG member: "There is darkness/within my soul/and I think of/death/which I long for/like a cookie. // And then the sun comes out from behind the clouds/like the sun on a cloudy day/and I am happy//and then i get sunburnt/which sucks/and I am depressed once more." (Recalled, from memory, from 2 years ago, but I think it's pretty accurate. Stephanie wrote it.) Sarah, King of France 02:48, 5 July 2007 (MDT)