Actor/artist/writer/director/grad student/neighbor-annoyer James Franco writes poems: "if that bothers you, Don't read 'em," he says. Here's a poem he wrote called "Los Angeles Proverb" that was published recently in The American Poetry Review and posted today to his Instagram (you probably haven't heard about this because he also recently posted a photo of someone wearing a Batman mask with semen on it). It's not very good. And here's a movie-industry-themed poem Franco also published recently in the APR.

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