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Radar and Claire Zulkey look at "some less-than-proud moments from the world of publishing" - Ed Koch's Murder at City Hall anyone? - now with bonus excerpts from The Celebrity Poetry Reader!
There's a goat in my ass,
Living mainly on grass.
They say the creature was stolen,
Yet he feeds on my colon.
—From Peace of my Mind, Charlie Sheen, 1988
"You were the better at rolling reefer, I was the better with coke and rum; Remember that night on the beach at Ibiza? The Maori twins with the tattooed bum?"
—From A Glass Half Full, Felix Dennis, 2004
"I am open and vulnerable like a crack in cement"
—From Yesterday I Saw the Sun, Ally Sheedy, 1991
"And do I know exactly why it starts
Slow, and have I those things which live towards the bottom,
In the lower parts
Of my heart?"
—From Touch Me, by Suzanne Somers, 1980
"Rocket ships
Are exciting
But so are roses
On a birthday
Computers are exciting
But so is a sunset"
—From Warmed by Love, by Leonard Nimoy, 1983
