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Amanda Palmer Penned the Absolute Worst Poem Ever: "A Poem for Dzhokhar"

That'll be all, Amanda.

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Amanda Palmer, best known as one-half of The Dresden Dolls and as that-girl-with-the-eyebrows-that-aren't, spent her weekend penning a poem that, from here on out, will be referred to as: The Worst Poem Ever.

Why a title as harsh as The Worst Poem Ever? For one, its real name is "A Poem for Dzhokhar" - as in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon last week with his older brother. Also, it's basically a sympathetic ode to him that, for some reason, mentions Vietnamese soft rolls.

A snippet from the poem (you can read it in full here, if you so dare):

Unsurprisingly, no one really liked it, if the comments or Palmer's subsequent tweets - "ahhh, it's been a long time on since internet trolls yelled at me that i was a slut, a talentless whore and a hippy!!! welcome, friends!!" - are any indication. That'll be all, Amanda.

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