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This Was Going to Be Entirely in Iambic Pentameter but I Forgot How Much Work That Is
O Ethan Hawke — what can I say, your name
excites each chamber of my slacker heart.
Between Dead Poets and something called White Fang,
your early work, it’s true, was not great art,
but your breakthrough — what won you much-deserved fame
was ninety four’s classic Reality Bites
for which you received critical acclaim.
Those cheekbones were sufficient to light
my angsty pre-pubescent loins ablaze.
I watched some of Gattaca, though it was bad;
never got ‘round to seeing Training Day.
You cheated on Uma; you’re kind of a cad;
But then there’s those novels — The Hottest State?
You’re a pretentious guy — there’s no debate.
In which I write a poem each weekday* inspired by the featured article of the day on Wikipedia.
These are first drafts, generally written in about fifteen minutes. I expect that some of the poems will be very bad, some will be merely bad, some will leave you completely ambivalent, and maybe on rare occasions there will be a phrase or a line break that does it for you.
Other stuff about me: My name is Ashleigh Lambert (ashleighalambert@gmail.com). I live in New York, where I attend grad school. I'm an editor at InDigest magazine (www.indigestmag.com). My poems have appeared or will soon appear in Ampersand Review, Anti-, elimae & Two Weeks: A Digital Anthology of Contemporary Poetry.
*Okay, not really. But whenever I find time.
