<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/87bbf71d-8bc0-43a4-9642-4c6626664055/106E33AE-2F9C-497F-8A72-8E9531EEE728/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2182129,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10" href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2182129,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10" style="font-size: 11px;">books.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2182129,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10"><P><B>A Tragedy by Theophile Marzials</B></P><P>Death! <BR /> Plop. <BR /> The barges down in the river flop. <BR /> Flop, plop, <BR /> Above, beneath. <BR /> From the slimy branches the grey drips drop... <BR /> To the oozy waters, that lounge and flop... <BR /> And my head shrieks - "Stop"<BR /> And my heart shrieks - "Die."... <BR /> Ugh! yet I knew - I knew<BR /> If a woman is false can a friend by true? <BR /> It was only a lie from beginning to end--<BR /> My Devil - My "friend."... <BR /> So what do I care, <BR /> And my head is empty as air - <BR /> I can do, <BR /> I can dare<BR /> (Plop, plop<BR /> The barges flop<BR /> Drip, drop.) <BR /> I can dare, I can dare! <BR /> And let myself all run away with my head<BR /> And stop. <BR /> Drop<BR /> Dead. <BR /> Plop, flop, <BR /> Plop.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2182129,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10"><P>The 1873 collection of verse in which it was published, The Gallery of Pigeons, was once highly praised. But - in picking Marzials as one of the new entries for its website today- the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says the poem is now claimed as the worst ever written. It quotes the last line as an example.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2182129,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10">Theophile Jules-Henri Marzials:</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/106E33AE-2F9C-497F-8A72-8E9531EEE728/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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