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Matthew Olzmann — Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem

Poetry Unbound

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The Bottle of Mountain Dew

The poem uses this thing called objectification and that when you're writing poetry isn't the way that we use it to describe derogatory behavior. I think one of the brilliant pieces of technicality in this poem is that this poem is focusing our attention on the bottle of Mountain Dew but yet we know absolutely throughout it that this isn't about a bottle of Mountain Dews. It's all about the fact that the fridge was empty there could have been so many things to spend the last damn time on except that one thing which was based on listening, he said he liked this drink and she purchased it for him.

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