Aaron's sister delivers on a hope first expressed in episode 5.1 "Not Long Song...Not Long," providing audio files from a cassette tape in Aaron's past. Dave and Aaron take a break for the Thanksgiving Holiday but not before taking a listen to these never before shared "songs" from a piney-whiney high school Aaron circ. 2008.

Warning: amateur emo piano ballads may cause unexpected ear bleeds and/or thoughts of grumpiness.

My Bad Poetry Episode 5.B1 "Bad Songs-giving"

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Sickness could not prevent this podcast from being recorded. Though maybe it should have... Dave and Aaron continue to work through the uncharted lengths of the latter pages of the Wolf Journal. What hellscape have they stumbled into? Listen along to find out!

My Bad Poetry Episode 5.3: "The Devils Playground"

End Poem from a Real Poet: "XLVI [Many red devils ran from my heart]" by Stephen Crane

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Another failed song from the pages of the Wolf Journal has Dave all kinds of frustrated. Too short, bad rhymes, toxic message, these are just a few of the reasons the hosts came up with...not to love this one.

My Bad Poetry Episode 5.2 "A Reason"

End Poem from a Real Poet: "I attempt from love's sickness to fly" by John Dryden and Sir. Robert Howard

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Welcome to Season 5! Dave and Aaron turn the page in the Wolf Journal to find a new genre of highschool Aaron's writing... lyrics. While this song may have tried to describe the immeasurable feelings of young love, the length of the stanza quite short. Or not nearly short enough according to Dave.

My Bad Poetry Episode 5.1 "Not Long Song... Not Long"

End Poem from a Real Poet: "Me and My Dog" by Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers aka boygenius

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Feeling nostalgic and a little crunched for time after 100 episodes, Aaron gives up on a blooper reel and finds a whole host of oddities in the uncut recording of "My Bad Poetry- Introductions" from Season 1.

A promo that ended up being just under 3 minutes took nearly 9 minutes to record. Which actually is pretty accurate to how the show still sounds behind the scenes.

My Bad Poetry Episode 4.21 "Our Bad Introductions"

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Dave and Aaron reach 100 episodes of the podcast and are somehow still dealing with Wolf Journal entries. High-schooler Aaron writes not from the mind and it shows as he tries to give advice on how to write. Considering all that has come before, maybe these words should be taken with a grain of salt. Also an abandon thought hangs out on the same page. Dave and Aaron take about as much time on it as previous Aaron apparently did.

My Bad Poetry Episode 4.20: "A Word of Advice"

End Poem from a Real Poet: "Writing Prompt" by Michael Torres

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"Look at Old Photographs/ Everytime we do it makes us laugh."

Megan brings so many gems to the show, yet the crew only had time to discuss two of them. Partly because they kept getting off topic with clergy stuff, and mainly because these works from a 17 year old Megan have layers. From romantic idealism to jaded pessimism all within the span of a stanza, Dave and Aaron find the rollercoaster of near rhymes and moonlit miracles well worth the ride.

My Bad Poetry Episode 4.19: "The Prince & Old Photographs (w/Megan McDermott)"

End Poem from a Real Poet: "Prayer Book for Contemporary Dating: The Index" by Megan McDermott published in Prayer Book for Contemporary Dating. Megan is a writer and Episcopal priest with her newest book Jesus Merch: A Catalog in Poem is available through Fernwood Press. Megan also references her chapbook Woman as Communion through Game Over Books. You can follow her work through her website https://meganmcdermottpoet.com/.

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Having covered all of the typed poems from Aaron's high school anthologies, Dave is sad to learn that the Wolf Journal is far from empty. Aaron finds three loose stanzas to get the show back into the pages of these handwritten "works."

My Bad Poetry Episode 4.18 "Return to the Wolf Journal"

End Poem from a Real Poet: “If you shed tears” by Rabindranath Tagore

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Though Dave had to bow out to be a good parent to sick kids, Aaron and Emily take a break from parenting to talk about poetry! Emily brings not only old poems but pictures from an eighth-grade project. Ekphrastic might be one way to describe these works but..."bad"...may be more accurate?

My Bad Poetry Episode 4.17 "Popularity, Two Similar? & When a tree is chopped...? (w/Emily Dillon)

End Poem from a Real Poet: "Pink Prose" by Emily Dillon published through Twin Pies Literary. Emily is a writer, teacher, coach, artist, and editor, from Maryland. You can find her website at https://www.emilydillonwriting.com/ which includes a list of her publications. When she isn't busy doing everything you can follow her on Twitter @emily_dillon or Instagram @ emilydillonwriting.

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Dave and Aaron discuss the last of the "poems without a home" from Aaron's typed out high school anthologies. The co-hosts cover the the lighthearted and easily discussed topic of "death." Why was a ninth grader writing about such a topic? Aaron thinks it was homework.

My Bad Poetry Episode 4.16 "Death"

End Poem from A Real Poet: "Sonnet 71" by William Shakespeare

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