[kjam22]

The guy may be a conservative.... but there's certainly nothing in the poem to indicate that he is. Just his own claims to be one.

I would have just given him an "F" because the poem was really pretty poor... and because it's pretty stupid to think you can write a poem that you know slams your professor and then expect a good grade. That's just common sense. And most conservatives have common sense.

[atlaw]

Agreed. And the notion of delivering a poem to a professor about having sex with that professor's daughter (especially when that daughter is in fact three years old) is downright creepy.

[Antoninus]

I would have just given him an "F" because the poem was really pretty poor... and because it's pretty stupid to think you can write a poem that you know slams your professor and then expect a good grade.

Actually, the poem was much, much better than 99% of what passes for poetry these days--free verse with funny line breaks is what I call it.

Any real professor would have given the student extra credit for having the guts to be critical, take a stand, and write passionately. Personally, I'd have given him a "B" unless I was grading on a curve--in which case, it would have been an "A". Technically, the poem isn't great--but like I said, the number of "poets" out there who even pay lip-service to meter and rhyme any more is pathetically small.