Culture Digest: Celebrity Quotes as Poems
Break a funny celebrity quote in the right places, and you'll discover deep and meaningful poetry.
by Alison Caporimo from Reader's Digest Magazine | May 2012
Illustrated by Zach Trenholm
Pop Verse
We all know celebrities say
the darnedest
things, which is
why Kathryn and Ross
Petras—authors of
The Anthology of Really
Important Modern Poetry (Workman Publishing, $11.95)—cast pop culture's craziest quotes into poetic form. We picked the funniest renditions.
Danny Moloshok/Reuters
Kanye West: "Past Life Regression"
I won’t go into a big spiel
about reincarnation,
But the first time I was in the Gucci store
in Chicago
Was the closest I’ve ever felt
to
home.
Steve Marcus/Reuters
Larry King: “Poetic Conundrum”
I’ve never thought too much about time
because
I’ve always been too busy
looking
at
my watch.
Stringer/Reuters
Sting: “Authentically Inauthentic … Perhaps”
Nothing is authentic,
and yet everything is authentic.
So I think my work comes into that category.
But just the struggle to tell a story
in an authentic fashion
is already authentic …
and yet it’s not.
Lucas Jackson/Reuters
Snooki: “How We Demeanor”
As well as descending down.
That’s how we am when we party,
Though the little of the things we do is,
like, “Really, Nicole?”
We demeanor similar to the freakin’ alcoholic.
I’m like, “You’re sweating, your makeup
is running,
We demeanor gross.”
We usually demeanor similar to
[redacted].
Source: The Anthology of Really
Important Modern Poetry (Workman Publishing, $11.95)
Buy the book here.
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