Rhyme crime spree

Bad poetry thrives and it’s not just your sentimental Aunt that commits rhyme crimes; Performing artists do too.

The Turtles weren’t the first or the last to commit rhyme crime with their 1967 hit “Happy Together” and its non-sequitur phrase: So happy together; And how is the weather?

In 2006, you had to feel for Madonna whose “I Love New York” forced this rhyme: I don’t like cities, but I like New York; Other places make me feel like a dork.

Ariana Grande’s 2014 song “Break Free”, attempted to rhyme heart with are in a grammar catastrophe. As in: …never at the hands of a broken heart… now that I’ve become who I really are.

With this in mind, Aug. 18 brings you Bad Poetry Day when even you can write lines like this. When finished, send them to your high school English teacher.