Poetry Mission About Cheeseburgers!
This week’s poetry mission comes from a Wed night Open Mic assignment we came up with a couple weeks ago. Olatundji Akpo-sani (Co-host of the Burnt Toast readings and Co-Publisher of Baobob Tree Press) had written a poem about cheeseburgers that he wasn’t too sure about, but that everyone else who’d read it tended to like it or thought it was great. He insisted that it wasn’t very good, so we decided to see who could out-shitty poem him. Whoever wrote the worst poem about cheeseburgers won. A half dozen of us accepted the challenge (I’d be publishing all of them below but I haven’t collected them yet and typed them up, complete first shitty chees...Read more
