Broetry: More Signs of the Dumbing Down of America

This past weekend, I was driving somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when suddenly the NPR show on my radio made me want to swerve into a cactus. Have you ever come across something so idiotic it makes you want to angrily scream into the midday sun?

The host of All Things Considered was interviewing a "bro" named  Brian McGackin--the author of the book, Broetry. Do you know what "broetry" is? It's a book of "broems." Are you already wanting to stab large needles into your eyes or should I explain more?

"Broetry is poetry for dudes," Brian McGackin writes in the introduction to his new collection of poems. "It's poetry for people who don't like poetry."

Shades of frat party shenanigans, how come when people say things like, "It's poetry for people who don't like poetry," the poetry in turn just ends up being plain crappy? Hasn't that whole bro/bromance thing already been played out? What I want is some broetry for people who don't like broetry.

Yes, these are poems for people who like to read parallels to Greek tragedies into episodes of Jersey Shore. Broetry example:

A girl, attractive, stood near
Working up the nerve to talk to her
3 More Jello shots will help

I guess what was lacking in modern poetry was more high-fiving after poems. Another Broetry example:

Is this poetry for dudes or douchebags? Boetry makes me want to hurt puppies.

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