Back in the 1970s, Alice Moore noticed new titles were being added to the reading lists

of local schools in Canawac County, West Virginia, where she lived.

When Alice found out about this new curriculum, she demanded that she would read every single book.

The journalist John Ronson spoke to Alice Moore for his podcast Things Fell Apart.

I had all 325 books delivered to my house and I started reading them.

Moore, the wife of a minister, did not like what she found.

So she started a movement to get a number of these books banned from the list.

She and the other parents would read passages from selected books out of context

as a way to shock school officials into action.

Ronson told NPR about one piece of literature that more found particularly offensive.

One of the passages that she would cite a lot back then was this poem,

which she said was unambiguously terrible.

The poem is called At Lunchtime, and it's about people on a bus

who, fearing the end of the world was coming at lunchtime,

abandoned all social decorum.

So she says, every day people started making love on the bus,

and the world has still not come to an end, but in a way it has.

But as she was reading the poem to me, I started to think,

I've got a feeling that this poet feels the same way she does about spontaneous

or what she's breaking out on buses, and I said that to her.

She said, of course not, you know, that's not true.

And I tracked down the poet, Roger McGough.

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