Writaz Wit Attitude

Brian Cook

Personally, I'd have gone with something more like this: Straight outta Hollywood Is a writer who will strike and ignite it And make a studio exec bite it Dangerous mothafucka who writes well And leave fat cats with shit to sell But this is still pretty good: Hat tip to Hayes.

Brian Cook was an editor at In These Times from 2003 to 2009. He now works on the editorial staff of Playboy magazine.
The text is from the poem “QUADRENNIAL” by Golden, reprinted with permission. It was first published in the Poetry Project. Inside front cover photo by Golden.
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