Denis Leary and the CelebriGum Poetry Slam

It's the first-ever CelebriGum Poetry Slam!  Here's the photo of Denis Leary that served as a jumping off point, followed by the poems it inspired.

gray weathered decayed 

old gum on the ledge awaits

posing yet unseen

--Bonnie Greenberg

Denis Leary & a lump of gum.

One a comic and the other mum.

An Irish gent walks the street

While the gum remains so discreet.

                       --Catherine Huggins

Exited the star of Rescue Me I said,

While on brick of red viewed by gum that's dead.

The entrance classy, and light a glow,

Too bad the cops told his Lincoln was towed.

--Denis Prior

Who are you, Denis Leary?

A dapper dancer from Stomp?

An Irish gigolo?

A firefighter?

Who are you, Denis Leary?

A chauffeur with a Lincoln Navigator?

A ginger streetwalker on 53rd Street?

A hockey player?

Who are you Denis Leary?

A chain smoking, edgy, comedian?

A maitre'd at (insert newest trendy NYC restaurant)?

A doctor?

Who are you Denis Leary?

The world awaits an answer.

                        --Tracy Austin

Denis Leary & Gum

Denis Leary walks to the Late Show

In the only way he know...

s.

A former writing teacher

Never a preacher

But often wears sneaker...

s.

The gum sits on the window sill

Doing what it does to pay the bill...

s.

Together they make

The internet cake

That is celebrigum.com great...

s.

Sorry the ending suck...

s.  

                           --David Kazmierski

The rarified air of CelebriGum 

Sometime includes the view of a bum

The solidified stature that is held in place

Makes it ever so difficult to avert said face

Whoa it be for that once loved treat

The constant parade of famous deadbeat

Would make lesser icons sad and weary

Taxing the limit is chewed Denis Leary.

Not that there is anything wrong with Mr Leary

He is but a victim of boredom and dreary.

                       --Kath Creel

old gum on a ledge

contemplating suicide

"rescue me, leary!"

a blur on a ledge

denis leary chewing gum

is this anything?

                       --Cheryl Levenbrown

Denis Leary is grabbing his abdomen,

perhaps he has a stone,

or swallowed some filthy old gum,

that's hardened like a bone.

                         --Jason White

Rescue Me -- A Ghazal


Reflections of power make ghosts stand still
The headless beast in the street cannot cry, ‘Rescue Me.’

A man holds his waist, his jacket a cape
Hair ablaze in the shade, he whispers, ‘Rescue Me.’

The chew cannot move, its hardened frame still
On the edge of a ledge it hums, ‘Rescue Me.’

An actor, a fake; no poetry can save
One foot in the fame, credits roll, 'Rescue Me.’

A wad of perfect waste no god could remove
Divine is its prayer, incomplete, ‘Rescue Me.’

                           --Shannon Mariama Houston

Well-meaning Denis Leary.
Not knowing what is near, he
Saunters to his SUV.
Above, the old gum weary,
Too dried up to be teary,
Cries in silence "Rescue me!"

                      --CelebriGum