DNC Uses Pitifully Bad Poem in Fundraising Email

August 2nd, 2015 12:43 PM

Shakespeare can sleep easy. His reputation as creator of some of the English language's greatest poems is in no danger of being overtaken. At least not by the likes of former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, whose "poem" the DNC chose to use in a fund-raising email today.

Rybak's shtick is tweeting out his doggerel.  His poem, if such it can be called, can be read after the break.  Rybak is a guy, by the way, who thinks Cheney-shoot-you-in-the-face cracks are cool.

Here's Rybak's opus, contained in the DNC email whose subject line was "I wrote a poem for you, Mark":

We're gathering all of our candidates
To hear what they have to say,
and you have a chance to join them --
so come on and enter today!

Question for NB readers: imagine you're a 10th grade English teacher, and a student submits a poem of the quality of Rybak's in satisfaction of an assignment.  What grade do you give it?