I think the most interesting approach to this would be as an ascetic or even
penitential exercise: identify a form of badness to which your own verse is
particularly vulnerable, and indulge it to the point of maximum (public)
excruciation.
That isn't what I did; and I think one could justifiably accuse me of bad
faith because of it, since the badness I wrote (about) was of a kind I wasn't
prepared to admit to - it was all "somebody else's badness". My *personal*
worst (which is what Jon asked for) is probably somewhat different.
Dominic
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