Inspired by some recent HHGG listening I thought I might show the worst poetry in the universe as described by Douglas Adams. The poet in question was in fact a schoolmate of Douglas Adams – Paul Neil Milne Johnston and the address mentioned in the radio series is actually the poets address.

The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool.
They lay. They rotted. They turned
Around occasionally.
Bits of flesh dropped off them from
Time to time.
And sank into the pools mire.
They also smelt a great deal.

Apparently this guy won several English prizes at school and received a scholarship to Cambridge… What’s wrong with this picture??

Incidentally..

Whoot! 350 visitors!

I just wrote a post. It was a post of perfect length. It was humorous, it gave insight into who ‘Miriam’ is . It contained amusing anecdotes about how when I was a kid I wanted to be a boy and went by the name of ‘Julian’. It was a perfectly formed specimen of blog post.

But then the network went down…

as I clicked Publish Post…

AND I LOST THE WHOLE FRACKING THING!!!!!

So now you will have to continue with your lives never knowing what amazing insights into the world which might have inspired you to come up with the single most brilliant idea of our time might have been contained in the post that the internet lost.