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highplainsdem

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33. You have to see the reaction on Twitter:

Tue Jan 17, 2017, 03:23 PM

Jan 2017

https://twitter.com/search?q=joseph%20charles%20mckenzie&src=typd

Some of them:

Move over, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings. Joseph Charles McKenzie is the new worst poet in the universe.

Joseph Charles McKenzie should have sent us each $25 dollars via square cash before he wrote that inauguration poem

I would like to state, for the record, that I, as an American, have never celebrated the poet Joseph Charles McKenzie.

Brb, have to Google "who the fuck is Joseph Charles McKenzie," because that may have been the worst thing I've read in a while.

"Celebrated American poet Joseph Charles McKenzie" LOL. PR email I got for this was hilarious.

Welp, poets won't need the ACA anymore because they all just spontaneously combusted after reading Joseph Charles McKenzie's inaugural poem.

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Donald Trump's inauguration poem describes Barack Obama as a 'tyrant' [View all] tenderfoot Jan 2017 OP

There was already a poem written for Donald years ago True Dough Jan 2017 #1

+ 1000 n/t. MBS Jan 2017 #14

Oh, there's a much more Trump-appropriate version of that one... jmowreader Jan 2017 #68

This is a joke, right? VMA131Marine Jan 2017 #2

"We immigrants hasten to swell the great crowd." lol wordpix Jan 2017 #9

Deluded POS MFM008 Jan 2017 #3

I'm guessing that poem won't win any awards... Wounded Bear Jan 2017 #4

terrible, as a teacher I give that poem an F wordpix Jan 2017 #11

On second thought... Wounded Bear Jan 2017 #61

I was certain the poem would start with "There once was a man from Nantucket..." brooklynite Jan 2017 #5

And the Obamas are expected to sit through that?! eleny Jan 2017 #6

That's fascist, strongman-worshipping crap. McKenzie wrote a similar piece of crap highplainsdem Jan 2017 #7

"The Independent" is owned by Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev. Chiyo-chichi Jan 2017 #8

Is this used to help teach Widdle Donnie how to rhyme?? malchickiwick Jan 2017 #10

"Come down from the Bung-Hole, ye brain-dead damned trumpsters; Paladin Jan 2017 #12

This is excellent. octoberlib Jan 2017 #18

That creepy "poem" is going to attract a lot of well-deserved scorn. Paladin Jan 2017 #46

I would turn my back on him bdamomma Jan 2017 #13

Good lord that's bizarre bettyellen Jan 2017 #15

Oh FFS! smirkymonkey Jan 2017 #16

More crap from McKenzie, not poetry but a column attacking Biden vis-a-vis Ryan in 2012: highplainsdem Jan 2017 #17

Is it Laypopes? oberliner Jan 2017 #27

Yes. See my reply #28 below highplainsdem Jan 2017 #31

Well, Trump is "anti-status quo". Obama and liberals dems are "status-quo" so that makes him evil emulatorloo Jan 2017 #19

Can someone check if there's any plagerization from Robert Burns in there? haele Jan 2017 #20

I think he plagiarized the meter from 'Twas the Night before Christmas Tanuki Jan 2017 #38

Not even a good poem vlyons Jan 2017 #21

My guess is that this wasn't solicited by anyone: the guy also wrote a poem celebrating Trump's Princess Turandot Jan 2017 #22

The "Scots poet" was born on the moors of New Mexico... VOX Jan 2017 #62

Sacrilege! It's so awful you'd think it was satire. nolabear Jan 2017 #23

I don't think this will be presented on Friday - at least I hope not. Raine1967 Jan 2017 #24

That's what Jon Voight is there for! Dramatic readings! Buns_of_Fire Jan 2017 #48

Oh lord, please no! Raine1967 Jan 2017 #50

It was that or have Lee Greenwood set it to music. nt Buns_of_Fire Jan 2017 #58

Huh? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2017 #25

This entire trump Ilk cannot say or do anything Horse with no Name Jan 2017 #26

More background on McKenzie and his writings: highplainsdem Jan 2017 #28

Correcting the last sentence above. McKenzie does have a website peddling his bad poetry. highplainsdem Jan 2017 #32

I think it is genius oberliner Jan 2017 #47

The Scottish story of Dumbnail of MacLoed portrays him as a stupid strongman literally. hedda_foil Jan 2017 #29

Not exactly On The Pulse of Morning oberliner Jan 2017 #30

You have to see the reaction on Twitter: highplainsdem Jan 2017 #33

If this is true. the Obamas should walk out. Or not attend at all. mainer Jan 2017 #34

See my reply #37 below. The Independent apparently fell for self-promotion by the poet, highplainsdem Jan 2017 #40

Takes one to know one? Initech Jan 2017 #35

That does it. I'm boycotting haggis. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2017 #36

Comments from Salon managing editor, who thinks the Independent "got trolled": highplainsdem Jan 2017 #37

thanks for the update tenderfoot Jan 2017 #49

I love the first comment in the newspaper - Vinca Jan 2017 #39

That's so.....alt-right. Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2017 #41

Real, and sadly due to publishers falling for PR email from the bad poet. See my reply above highplainsdem Jan 2017 #42

I was expecting a Pepe the Frog reference thrown in for good measure. nt Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2017 #44

Unfortunately, the Scotsman fell for this poet's PR email too, and published it. highplainsdem Jan 2017 #43

LOL! Wonkette calls it "A perfectly horrible new Vogon poem written to 'pay tribute to his highplainsdem Jan 2017 #45

This poem could be worse than lapfog_1 Jan 2017 #55

If they have the brass balls to read it aloud at inauguration HassleCat Jan 2017 #51

I don't think there's anything official about it. LisaM Jan 2017 #52

NP. I just wrote a poem for Trump, here goes Rex Jan 2017 #53

Sombody fixed it for him snpsmom Jan 2017 #54

Too bad he's of German descent Drahthaardogs Jan 2017 #56

"A woman's first right is the right to be born" ismnotwasm Jan 2017 #57

That is not poetry. July Jan 2017 #59

What a steaming pile of MacHorseshit. VOX Jan 2017 #60

Translation MerchantofLight Jan 2017 #63

Welcome to DU! Maeve Jan 2017 #64

Excellent! ismnotwasm Jan 2017 #65

Wow! Well done! Rhiannon12866 Jan 2017 #67

Hahaha.. Blue_Roses Jan 2017 #69

He was drunk when he wrote this drivel, right? MrScorpio Jan 2017 #66

What a miserable bastard. Maru Kitteh Jan 2017 #70

So this turned out to be BS oberliner Jan 2017 #71

"He's enriched many cities by factors of ten"? Ken Burch Feb 2017 #72

"...the bonnie young lassies that fly to the crowd..."? Ken Burch Feb 2017 #73