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FURTHER READING
Poems by Aaron Smith
Boston
Essays by Aaron Smith
The Very Act of Telling: Sharon Olds and Writing Narrative Poetry
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Brad Pitt

 
by Aaron Smith

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?







From Blue on Blue Ground by Aaron Smith © 2005. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
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