Poetry critic (screenshot via NBC) Eric Cantor is not impressed The House majority leader grimaced as Richard Blanco delivered his inauguration poem

While many thousands of people were moved by Richard Blanco's inauguration poem , "One Today," a message of equality and shared experience and struggle in contemporary America, the camera fell unfortunately (brilliantly) on Eric Cantor's grimace during the delivery.

The Twittersphere was quick to wonder whether Cantor was hoping for rhyming couplets, or hated poetry in general, has a grumpy resting face or perhaps was just cold:

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Even some ghosts of the White House past weighed in:

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