I thought that was a really bad poem for a minute.

"I don't want my bad poems published after I'm not around to check them," he said.

She's right, it is a bad poem, almost endearingly so.

His bad poems are harming nobody, and I am delighted he won the election.

Bridges believed that the final lines redeemed an otherwise bad poem.

But what is the point, anyway, in castigating the bad poem?

Yes, some readers get singsongy, and others bring bad poems.

But what is the peculiarity of a good bad poem?

A good bad poem is a graceful monument to the obvious.