Evil Poetry

Can a piece of poetry be truly evil?

Can you weaponize it to do things to readers they do not want you to do?

A lot of stupid people believe they can write a poem,

And so, a lot of stupid poetry gets written.

But there exist poets so bad… so terrible…

Like Mickey…

Maybe not the worst poet in the history of the world,

But on the list of the most infamous twenty-five,

Who can write a poem so completely vile…

That if the poet reads it aloud in his backyard…

A cat on the other side of the city…

Will vomit itself inside out and die…

Because it was used to its college professor owner…

Reading Robert Frost’s poems aloud in the drawing room…

And its highly developed nervous system…

Simply couldn’t take the shock.

A poem can force you to feel.

It can make you laugh, cry, and…

Shudder!

Make you think for yourself.

An Evil Poem can torture a metaphor…

Twisting, tormenting, tearing apart to reassemble…

Making that metaphor scream for mercy.

An Evil Poem means something…

And that doesn’t have to mean that it means…

Something good.

It can mean…

Something mean.

So, a poem can be evil because…

It forces you to discover…

What poetry’s purpose is.