I used to do the Perl Poetry Contest for The Perl Journal. Somehow, the email address I use for that contest made its way into the wild. Some morons seem to think I have some ongoing Poetry (regular poetry) contest and send me their poems. I have emailed a few of them asking where they saw the email address, and why they think I want their poems... but noone every responds. So, I have decided to stop deleting these things and just post them here :)

Entry #1

From xxxxx@aol.com Thu May 2 21:37:32 2002
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 21:01:29 EDT
Subject: i want to enter
To: xxxxx@xxxx.com
X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10571

Heres my poem about dare.

There're a lot of things I've learned in life such as how to do my hair.
But most of the things I've learned in life are the things I've learned in
dare.
I see people smoking cigarettes but I think, heck, I don't care.
And the pressure that's on u is really not fare.
So the next time your friends ask u to take the puff, there just trying to be
tuff.
say "that's enough"
I'm not old enough.
by Rachel Johnston

I'm happy Rachel isn't smoking.. good for you! But, "I'm not old enough"? So, you should smoke when you are? I'm confused.