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comments →  [–]lazerdave -1 points0 points  (0 children)   As an
atheist, I'm pissed that someone would try to exploit the death
of OP's brother.  In the bigger sense, I'm more pissed about the
"poem" itself. This happens a lot this time of year, but throw
religion into the mix and people feel they have even more
license to do it. And by "it," I mean people completely ignoring
the concept of meter in poetry.  As the great Tom Lehrer once
wrote: "The tune don't have to be clever,/ And it don't matter
if you stuff a couple extra syllables into a line./ It sounds
more ethnic if it ain't good English/ And it don't even gotta
rhyme...sorry, rhyne."  Christmas commercials are usually the
worst offenders, but xtian people do it all year long. Just
because the last word of every other line rhymes, that DOES NOT
A POEM MAKE. Well, not a good one, in any case.  Now don't get
me wrong here, there's nothing wrong with free verse. Just don't
try to pretend o