Review: Horrible -- and hilarious
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 13, 2012
I should have known by the title. The poems start out horrible with a PETA bent (turns out it is PETA) and stays that way. The poetry is lousy, plus there are several outright false statements in the poetry. But the reason it gets only one star is simply Bad Poetry Should Not Be Distributed (Amendment One notwithstanding). Sadly, instead of standing up for animal welfare or animal rights, the bad poetry makes you want to eat ribs and chicken (and try not to spit it on the table as you laugh out loud).There is one poem that could have been really good, except the scribbler (I will not say poetess) inserted a verse that screwed it up. Since it is not horrible, I want to discuss it.The poem is from the point of view of a hen, wondering if you ever think about what that breakfast egg means. One verse screws it up, by saying something like "I am so unhappy that I never see the sun and grass that wish I could die." The verse is not only out of sync with the rest of the poem (which would otherwise make anybody think about their eggs), but since you can't know what the hen is thinking (especially since factory hens probably don't wish for something about which they know nothing), it makes the poem lose credibility.If the poems were written like the hen and egg poem (minus the anthropomorphic nonsense, and without the political PETA crap), I think the message would have been much more effective and reached an audience outside the choir.Forewarned is forearmed: I won't buy her stuff again.