Disappointment
Hardly! That his sister's boyfriend
is a hoicking copy of the late River Phoenix
or his father-in-law is James Caan
is as believable as free $100 notes
and so it was today, meeting
"Angelina Jolie" about whom
I'd heard such stories
the way, when she was dressed up
men would tunnel beneath tables
towards her, they'd buy her iPods
take her to India or Switzerland
where the ski-ing was divine!
She was with her latest boyfriend
embarrassed to be seen outside beside him
swearing she'll play up "something shocking"
when he's away overseas next month
But, of course, her nose is way too big
she has an attaché case under each eye
and the ferocious hangovers she suffers
from her $300 nights out on the booze
are beginning to erode her face
are painting that nose purple, unless it's just
the way the sun's shining now, at nine AM
her smoking has imparted
a dark patina to her skin
her four abortions (never uses condoms)
must have left some mark
even if it's just on the pink, inner side of her, but
Finally, she's human!
Overdrawn on her BankCard
behind with her rent
and being sued by the Body Corporate!
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- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
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- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
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- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
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- Wolf, The
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