This weekend the Miami Herald proudly announced an online competition demanding the best poem worshiping LeBron James and his arrival to the Miami Heat. The only rules: The poem must commemorate LeBron and is limited to 6 (his number) lines. The homage can take any form, so both realists and post-modernists can participate and so can anyone into Iambic pentameters, literally ballads and acrostics.
The whole thing seems less than gimmicky, and certainly isn’t a joke: The winner will read his/her opus on the radio and will receive two tickets, not to a Heat game, but to the Contemporary Poetry Festival at the brand new Frank Gehry designed New World Symphony! I guess this literary eye-sore is targeting the shallow and non-existent creature who calls himself both a poet and a LeBron James fan. Cause if you're writing about LBJ, you ain't no poet.
They should start the same competition in Cleveland.
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