But I digress. Oh yes, some people take poetry seriously. Well, they need therapy. Lots and lots of therapy, followed by being locked away in a cabin for 2 years with nothing to read but Dr. Seuss, Ogden Nash and Monty Python books. Only then will they learn the one simple fact that most of us already know.
Poetry is silly.
It was meant to be silly, it always has been silly and the best poems have always been the silliest ones. To achieve the highest highs, a poet must not only be silly, he must have a silly subject. Last contest we did Spam, the silliest meatlike substance on the face of the earth and it yielded impressive results. This time, we're going for a new theme. Poetry dedicated to the silliest movie on the face of the earth, 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'.