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Title: LOVE POEMS? LOVE, SICK IN THREE-QUARTERS TIME
Review: This "poems" in this thin volume are actually love songs ..,. such popular ditties as "I Honestly Love You," "Sometimes When We Touch," "Take My Breath Away," "Islands in the Stream," "Like a Virgin" and "Hooked on a Feeling." What a gimmick. What a rip-off. The performers who sang the songs are credited (the actual composers and lyricists are listed in the back of the book), presumably because names like "Madonna" and "Olivia Newton-John" are much familiar (and more marketable) than "Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly" and "Stephen Kipner and Terry Shaddick." Hot stuff? Please. Don't make me feel guilty. Even for the hot bloodied, the glory of love featured here is bad medicine. Originality, more than words, is still the one. I can't fight this feeling of ... up-chucking.
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