spotlight: Pop Culture Poetry: The Definitive Collection

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The poems within Pop Culture Poetry: The Definitive Collection explore our relationship with celebrity. They're about David Attenborough and 90s Hip Hop, Bjork, toxic masculinity, Patrick Swayze, The Golden Girls, nostalgia and vulnerability, Whoopi Goldberg, Justin Bieber, video games and Queen. But they're also about the author, and also about you, and you (and yes, you in the back). They're funny, because Michael B. Tager is funny. But also they're really not, because Tager is never actually joking. 

Excerpt from Pop Culture Poetry

Justin Bieber, as Dalmatian 

ARE you skittish? Are you too big
for your own good?
Too pretty? 

Folks want to wear your skin
a tattooed coat
dewy with hydrated fame

I think it’s creepy
I know your spots change color with the solar
wind. I’m aware your hips are bear traps
your ears filled with songbirds
You are no housedog
You belong outside
grinning in the summer rain