Kria
Homeworld of the Azgoths of Kria and birthplace of the second worst poetry in the Universe, where Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent recited his lethal verse.
Guide Entry: Kria
"The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem 'Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My Armpit One Midsummer Morning' four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging..."
— The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Chapter 7
Kria is the homeworld of the Azgoths of Kria, notorious across the Galaxy as the cradle of the second worst poetry in the Universe.
The Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council Incident
Kria's amphitheatres witnessed one of the most catastrophic literary events in galactic history when Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent recited his poem Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My Armpit One Midsummer Morning:
- Casualties: Four members of the audience died on the spot of internal haemorrhaging, and the visiting President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived only by gnawing one of his own legs off.
- Narrow Escape for Civilization: Only the heroic intervention of Grunthos's own major intestine—which leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain before he could begin reading his twelve-book epic My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles—spared Kria and the wider Galaxy from total cultural extinction.
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