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I Love?--Eww! (poem)

Bae, baby, babe      You creed and my steed,  wearing bloodied organs on your sleeve.      As if I could do more than adore in the dark      As if the physics in our physical  weren’t pure bionic spark.  I’m standing stark Naked. & I didn’t fake it This bed?— don’t make it. Because now when I get a sore from my shoe -      I'm stuck thinking of you           down in the muck, and the uck, and the goo...  I love, eww...

The Shallows vs. JAWS: A Deepwater Review ***SPOILERS***

The Shallows was a spectacular movie, it's such an awesome movie, I honestly don't even want to remotely ruin the movie for you if you're here reading this and haven't seen it yet, but I did want to comment on the content and context of both JAWS and The Shallows , do a basic compare and contrast of the two.   JAWS was based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel of the same tittle , a book I've actually read and here's a shocker from the book that wasn't included in the 1975 film: Police Chief Martin Brody's wife was totally having an affair with oceanographer Matt Hooper. Interesting how the sexuality of an adulteress got axed from the original plot-line , huh? * JAWS was an exceedingly male focused film and prior to the days of on-demand streaming content and binge watching on Netflix, people of my generation grew-up with re-runs. JAWS used to run non-stop on television, seemingly almost constantly while growing up. The opening scene of the