B.J. Best

Music Hater

I hate music with a heat;
It always makes me burn up.
Once I thought I found a beat
But it turned out to be a turnip

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Poem's Score: 0.372518518519

B.J. Best is the author of several non-terrible books of poetry, most recently But Our Princess Is in Another Castle from Rose Metal Press. He lives in Wisconsin, but this poem was written in Iowa in 1994. Visit him at http://bj.desperadopress.com.

JULY GENIUS

For July 2013, Everyday Genius is pleased to present poems that were rated below 0.4 on the "Poetry Assessor"—a tool that "is designed to determine whether a poem has the characteristics of a professional poem, or, alternatively, an amateur poem.

We publish the poems here, with their scores, not to confirm the Assessor's judgment, but to allow human readers to decide for themselves.