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Monday, May 19, 2008

Profitable Day for Rancid Rhyming

An auction showed that bad poetry can financially top popular contemporary fiction. While a rare set of Harry Potter books insribed by the author went for $12,000, a collection of 35 self-published poems by William Topaz McGonagall, who has the reputation of being the worst poet in the English language, sold for $15,600, according to this story by the Associated Press.

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