Awkward-ature: The Pornographer's Poem

Ah, liberty. This book is hands down, impossible to put down for a slew of reasons. For one, the premise of the book is about some 7th graders who are given film instruction by a liberal teacher in the 70's. Sounds harmless, right? Except it's not at all. The narrator at the onset of the book is being interviewed by detectives for producing home-made porn. Awesome. This book is grotesque, sexual, explicit, amazing. It explores different sexualities, societal norms (for one the liberal teacher is black in an all-white public school and another teacher mentioned is an alleged child-molester who may or may not be an innocent homosexual.) The narrator of this book is extremely cool. Like, I kind of want to be him. He listens to awesome music, smokes a lot of pot, and dun-dun-dun--makes porn! Also, he fucks with the detectives a la Kevin Spacey in Usual Suspects. Dude, just read it. And talk about awkward--travelling with this guy (who never actually reveals his name) as he has sex for the first time, receives his first blow-job, has his first sam-sex hook up, and eventually tapes an older married couple having sex with an animal--sending him into a srot of seedy, avant-garde lifestyle of porn, drugs, and thugs. What what. A-mazing. Read, read, read. (Oh yeah, also hard to get...check out softskullpress.com) And as usual, check out some of the text that will literally fuck you up. First, background to paragraph--narrator is talking about rich kids in Vancouver.

"I sell them drugs because I enjoy the fact that these rich kids are getting all fucked up. And do you want to know something else? I've got a theory about this. I've got it in my head that if I get these rich kids all fucked up on drugs, then I'm doing humanity a service. D'ya know what I'm saying? Do you ever think about what a better world this might be if a whole generation of rich people got so fucked up on drugs they stopped spending all their time being greedy? And do you ever wonder how decent the world might be without all those rich people fucking things up? I mean, we could have a little equality for a change? Whaddaya think of that? Doesn't that sound good? Sounds pretty good to me. The rich are pimps as far as I'm concerned. And you already know my position on pimps."

What's not to love.