Nocyclopedia/IdiotPoetia/Did you know


 * Only 76.2% of all poets, living or dead, are gay.


 * 16.7% are bisexual, 5.4% are in denial about it, and 1.7% are asexual. The remainder are, in fact, straight.


 * If dark Romantic poetry were 60's and 70's American politics, Nathaniel Hawthorne would've been Lyndon Johnson, Poe would've been JFK, and Herman Melville would've been Dick Nixon.


 * Haiku means urinal cake in French and Mexican.


 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem She Came & Went is about a dead baby.
 * His daughter, but a dead baby none-the-less.


 * At the age of 12, Charles Dickens used to work in a boot-blacking factory.
 * Charles Dickens is the one who looks like Tim Burton.


 * A "huckleberry finn" is a type of berry bush native only to Missouri.


 * Geoffrey Chaucer was born on Retrocession Day (Taiwan).


 * Don't Say Goodbye by Edmund Spenser is the longest haiku ever written, at a whopping total of four lines.


 * that using Rhymezone .com is a brilliant way to murder all the best rappers alive lyrically.