You probably aren’t ready for Megan Fox’s book of poetry
Megan Fox will release her poetry collection, Pretty Boys Are Poisonous, on November 7
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Writing an angsty little poem is a time-honored tradition for girls everywhere, from penning in one’s most secret journal to the notes app. Sometimes, those words end up printed and published for the world to see: such is the case for Megan Fox, who on Tuesday announced her new poetry collection Pretty Boys Are Poisonous.
Publisher Simon & Schuster describes the book as the “powerful debut from one of the most well-known women of our time.” The description reads, “Turn the page, bite the apple, and sink your teeth into the most deliciously compelling and addictive books you’ll read all year.”
“These poems were written in an attempt to excise the illness that had taken root in me because of my silence,” Fox says in her own statement on the collection. “I’ve spent my entire life keeping the secrets of men, my body aches from carrying the weight of their sins. My freedom lives in these pages and I hope that my words can inspire others to take back their happiness and their identity by using their voice to illuminate what’s been buried, but not forgotten, in the darkness.”
Fox has shared some of her writing online before. Back in February 2021, she posted a tribute to her fiancé Machine Gun Kelly (real name Colson Baker) on Instagram for Valentine’s Day:
“here goes my heart
manifest outside of my body
draped in the towering silhouette of a most unusually handsome boy
magical and haunted
kinetic and tortured
ethereal and dangerous
cosmic
lawless
eternal
creative genius
the journey will likely be perilous
but there is no destination without him”
As a title, Pretty Boys Are Poisonous feels in line with some of that flowery Instagram caption work (“Achingly beautiful boy… My heart is yours,” is another example, also about MGK). Your mileage may vary regarding the sentiments or the style, but Fox almost certainly has interesting things to say when it comes to keeping silence on behalf of men. Speaking with Glamour in 2022, the actor said she’d had “genuinely harrowing experiences in a ruthlessly misogynistic industry” but didn’t feel “included in the feminist community,” possibly because she wasn’t “a very sympathetic victim.”
“I think that I was ahead of the #MeToo movement by almost a decade,” she said at the time. “I was always speaking out against some of the abusive, misogynistic, patriarchal things that were going on in Hollywood back in 2008 and 2009, way before people were ready to embrace that or tolerate it. And I actually got ridiculed for doing it. I think people just have had time to review that, in retrospect.”
Pretty Boys Are Poisonous may then be an interesting combination of relatably cringe love poems and literary insight into Hollywood misogyny from Fox’s unique perspective. Whatever it is will be revealed when the book hits shelves on November 7.
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Megan’s poetryfull of vacuous symbolsOnly for fan boys
“Turn the page, bite the apple, and sink your teeth into the most
deliciously compelling and addictive books you’ll read all year.”
So it comes with a free apple? But we’re supposed to eat the book instead?
How do you like them apples?
“…and how do you like those very same apples, Eggers?!?”
I’m still full from eating the document.
I just ate my laptop.*burp*
I don’t think I’ll ever be ready,
The last guy I knew who was this close to ready actually dissolved into a cloud of glitter and drifted up to heaven.
I’ve lived through William Shatner’s Musical Career… Megan Fox putting her thoughts to paper will be just as inane!
That’s the spirit!
Finally, something for people who are interested in Megan Fox but uninterested in looking at her.All those people.
I can’t really say I’m into looking at her anymore.
TIL that Brian Austin Green and MGK are considered pretty. Maybe the next surgery Megan gets should be on her eyes.
That’s some high school goth level poetry there.
Indeed, it includes all the necessary words for being gothy. Plus being entirely overwrought.
YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND ME MOM!!::slams door, blares Type O Negative::
She’s already picking out the typeface for the “DAMAGED + BEAUTIFUL” tattoo she’s gonna get across her collarbones.
You’re right, give me second to drink some more of this ayahuasca and hit myself with this pipe wrench.OK, now I’m ready.
Is this stuff even going to rhyme?
While Ginsberg it’s not, poems don’t have to rhyme.
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by the Transformers movies…”
In fact, as a general rule if a poem written after 1920 rhymes, it’s shit.
There once was a girl named Fox,whom many men gazed upon while stroking their…
“powerful debut from one of the most well-known women of our time.” Surely they can’t even say that with a straight face?
You don’t need to have a straight face when you *write* something like that. I can only imagine the writer of those words is still trying to get their eyes to come back down out of their head so that they can see things again.
Never underestimate the power of a dump truck filled with botox.
nice
I have a feeling the Venn diagram between Rupi Kaur fans and whoever buys this book will have a lot of overlap. By which I mean they are semi-literate plebs.
The high points of her career were Jennifer’s Body and her guest starring stint on New Girl. I would imagine this is the low point
No disrespect to Megan Fox, who I think has always been pretty decent in movies, but I was pretty amazed to see recently that she’s just basically become an Instagram THOT at this point in her career.
I liked this cringe better when it was A Night Without Armor.(a book I DID own, thankyouverymuch)
Does she actually mean they are poisonous or does she really mean venomous?
Don’t confuse her.
Why would you think she doesn’t mean what she said?
Because many people think the terms are synonyms when they are not. And unless you are Jeremy Dahmer (or perhaps Armie Hammer) the latter seems more relevant than the former.
Okay, but what indication do you have that she’s one of those “many people”?“And unless you are Jeremy Dahmer (or perhaps Armie Hammer) the latter seems more relevant than the former.”It’s called a metaphor. You know (I hope?) that she doesn’t literally mean she eats pretty boys. You do know that, right? But she’s talking about figuratively consuming them. And actually not so figuratively in all senses, since we as women let these pretty boys inside our bodies, and it’s from there that they can cause illness (emotional, since the metaphor apparently needs full explanation). If they were venomous and we could see the attack coming, they wouldn’t be as dangerous. Figuratively speaking.Or is this just one of those things where you know a fact and then enjoy feeling superior by assuming that no one but you knows it, especially not an attractive woman who must, by definition, be stupid?
“I was ahead of the #MeToo movement by almost a decade” is certainly a take.
Oh, I’m ready – to say OMG, this is absolute shit.
Honestly curious, is there a poem that has words rhyming with”Bay”?
I mean in a way, you have to kind of admire the people posting comments below that imply Fox’s only value is the way she looks & her sexuality when the article above even mentions the misogyny she’s faced, and the ridicule she often received for speaking up.
So, she’s as vapid, fake and annoying on the inside as she is on the outside. Got it.
One assumes she means venomous? Or is she warning us not to eat pretty boys?
“Or is she warning us not to eat pretty boys?”
Is that more or less weird than don’t let pretty boys eat you?
Probably the latter. Don’t forget she likes to drink her boyfriend’s blood.MGK looks like the personification of a used heroin needle, so I shudder to think what’s swirling around those veins. She’s probably lucky to be alive.
Fair point.
Why would you assume that she doesn’t mean poisonous? As in something that if you consume will make you sick or kill you? She doesn’t literally mean “eat.”
Roses are red,Ninja Turtles are green,Transformers are cars,Did those movies get seen?
I’m not even ready for this jelly, don’t overwhelm me here.
Overuse of the return key does not equal poetry.
I need To readThe clear-eyed, even-keeled, tween-talent-calibre assessments and musingsof someone who felt she was unattractiveeven as the entire media and nascent digital commentariatConstantly assured her of the opposite
So that poem reprinted here is not very good, but I have to say that “I’ve spent my entire life keeping the secrets of men, my body aches from carrying the weight of their sins” is relatable like a motherfucker. Will not be purchasing this book, though.