After The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
those brave moments
when the postman is a red letter
and a brick thrown through a window
the hate-mail on it
and glass bits in showers
and it is a car accident
filmed in slow motion
the hands in frame
and the faces attached to them
the impact
you make a beautiful woman
look like a young dinosaur
her neck slack
like batter in a sticky bowl
ready for rolling
Brad Pitt has never looked hotter
than in this period picture
hair blonder with the months
the retrograde
the shrinking fees of make-up
A poem based on a film you hated too much to finish
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