The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 4/28/09

[BlueIris]

"Brad Pitt"

With cotton candy armpits and sugary
Crevices, sweat glazing your donut skin.
Have you ever been fat, Brad?
Have you ever wanted a Snickers
More than love and lain on your bed
While the phone rang and rolled one
On your tongue, afraid to eat it, afraid
it would make your jeans too tight? Have you
Barfed, Brad, because you ate it,
Ate all the take out, licked
Brown sauce off the box while you sobbed?
Brad Pitt down in the pits chaining menthol
Ciggys in your thick-wallet life,
It's not so bad Brad, sad Brad, is it?

~Aaron Smith

[BlueIris]

1. Oh, come on. This is by no means the weirdest or most offensive piece

I've posted. And it's kinda topical.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear BlueIris!

OK...what to think?

This is a lot more relevant and less weird than yesterday's!

Interesting word play...

Thank you!

:hi:

[BlueIris]

3. After yesterday, I thought I should go with something a little less...er, less.

But I can't deny I'm in a serious mood and not inclined to post about the mundane or trivial.

Edited to add: is that a phantom rec I spy? Thank you, Phantom Recommender.

[ThomCat]

4. Interesting, and pretty cool.

It's got lust for Brad Pitt, junk food addiction, chain smoking and it's all clearly about the author's life while.

I think a lot of us can really empathize with this in a lot of ways. How many of us lust after seemingly perfect looking celebrities and then glance at our very imperfect looking selves? :)

[BlueIris]

6. You would really like Aaron Smith's book, "Blue On Blue Ground."

Which deals primarily with a gay male speaker's struggles to cope with health issues and relationships in NYC.

[ThomCat]

7. I'll put it on my list.

I'm setting up my computer shortly to check out e-books so I can do large print, and I'm checking out audio-books, so I will hopefully be able to read again soon. :)

[RetroLounge]

5. Hee, I like this...

:hi:

RL