Avril Reigns

TEEN DRAMA Does Lavigne's angst rise to the level of poetry?

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Avril Reigns

Countless 18-year-olds spend their school days scribbling rhymed verses into their math notebooks. But few parlay those jottings into a triple-platinum, ''TRL''-worshiped album, as high-school dropout Avril Lavigne has with ''Let Go'' (Arista).

Still, do the Canadian teen's literary gifts match her musical talents? To find out, we showed the complete lyrics of the tie-wearing, skateboarding Canadian's new hit, ''Sk8er Boi,'' to two experts in the business of judging and publishing teen poetry. Here's what they had to say.