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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Aaron Smith
Aaron Smith

Aaron Smith is the author of Blue on Blue Ground, the winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize selected by Denise Duhamel. It will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in the fall of 2005. His chapbook, What's Required, received the 2003 Frank O'Hara Award.

FURTHER READING
Poems by Aaron Smith
Boston
Essays by Aaron Smith
The Very Act of Telling: Sharon Olds and Writing Narrative Poetry
Poems About Movies
After the Movie
by Marie Howe
Chaplinesque
by Hart Crane
Daffy Duck In Hollywood
by John Ashbery
Heroic Simile
by Robert Hass
Homage to Sharon Stone
by Lynn Emanuel
Seventeen Questions About KING KONG
by Jane Cooper
Related Prose
The Well-Versed Movie
by Stacey Harwood
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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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