by phillipw | Sep 29, 2021 | Ho, LU, PL
A witch in Port au Prince or something like Her hints the spell required. This spell defies Both death and time. It operates its spike, Injecting magic botox near the eyes And in the film star’s forehead by P.R. The actor and executives conspire To cast the...
by phillipw | Sep 29, 2021 | BI, BU, RA, RO
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The 1960s weren’t exactly right For stars who touched each other in the way That audiences hated. Lovers might Endeavor to keep journalists at bay, But Robert Benevides...
by phillipw | Sep 29, 2021 | BU, DE, HU, JA, MI, SA
If macho stars are doing sex with men, That must be covered up. Mere Vaseline Across the lens won’t do. It’s cock and hen That’s right for Hollywood. Shut down the scene If Marlon Brando kisses Dean and/or The other way around. Rock Hudson’s Day Is just for show. ...
by phillipw | Sep 29, 2021 | Ho, LU
A vacuum perceived requires a fix. It may not be a real lacuna but The fear that it might be results in tricks Of golden surgery. The star must strut As if there were no fault. No plastic knife Will do the job. A golden one cuts best. And if an actor chooses the...
by phillipw | Sep 29, 2021 | Ho, LU
Replacing Truth with Beauty “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” ~ John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” The trick is making it look effort-free. The style must seem as natural as hair Inside an armpit. If the star is she, Not he, the use of hair-removing Nair Or...
by phillipw | Sep 29, 2021 | Ho, LU
Grammar Glamor Aye, leave it to the Scots spell the word A winsome way. The English did not change Orthography of “grammar” to a slurred New form that came to mean a widened range Of scope, of starlets stalking down a long Red carpet, or a slew of...
by phillipw | Sep 29, 2021 | Ho, LU
Gods and Goddesses without Free Will The palace of the glamor kings and queens Is guarded at its gate by guys with guns. They will not ever let the silver screens Around the world show us the blemished sons And daughters of semi-divinities. The chosen ones must flash...
by phillipw | Sep 28, 2021 | AP, Ho, LU
Blessèd Are the Beautiful The people built for glamor are built for Worship. Adulation of the crowd Is studio directed so that, more Like worship, it concocts a Venus proud Of her authority or actors veil Themselves like royalty in Oz. We do Not want their...
