Jamaal Bowman’s Very Bad Poetry

The critic Harold Bloom once that former President Jimmy Carter, the author of a book of verse titled , was “literally the worst poet in the United States.” Bloom wisely died in 2019, thereby avoiding having to read the poetry of another politician, Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York, a member of the “Squad.” Bowman’s selected poetic works came to light yesterday. He apparently kept a blog in the 2010s, before his election to Congress in 2020. it and published a “composition” in free verse, which at times seems to endorse nutty conspiracy theories. “Later in the day / Building 7 / Also Collaspsed [] / Hmm … / Multiple, a film series that was briefly popular among morons credulous enough to believe conspiracy theories about the Federal Reserve, but whose minds were not yet sufficiently tenderized that they sold their possessions to follow Alex Jones. Bowman told that he had been “processing” his thoughts in public, and he now regrets posting them.