Oh my lord. Andy Griffith's wife wrote a poem for the inauguration of North Carolina's governor. Andy Griffith read the poem. You can see video of it here.

Here is the poem:

North Carolina is my home
I no longer have to roam
When I see our morning sun
I know there's work to be done
Gov. Bev Perdue is the person we choose
because there's so much she can do.
She will need our best to achieve her quest
to be the person we need so we may succeed
Please grant us the peace
to allow her to lead
God bless her and keep her
and always be near her.
As she opens a door
as never before
So as the New Year starts
let us open our hearts
As I trot out again to say
Hello to my friends
I grant I know that all will be great
For our grand Old North State.

I know many of you out there don't know a lot about poetry, so I'll spell it out for you: I know it (sometimes) rhymes and everything, but this is an awful poem. This is worse than an awful poem. This is a terrifyingly bad poem. I have read poems written by children that are better than this poem. As a child, I wrote poems better than this poem. Elizabeth Alexander had better do better than this at Obama's inauguration. Of course, Alexander is a good and award-winning poet, but inaugurations do funny things to people. If she tries to rhyme home/roam, starts/hearts, her/her, choose/do, and quest/succeed, she will be in deep trouble.