A Poem about Los Angeles

By Reilly Keen

The entrance to the underworld is Los Angeles (Rick Riordian’s The lightning thief)

In Hollywood, nobody knows anything (William Goldman)

The difference between LA and bacteria is that bacteria has culture (Unknown)

Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic (Norman Mailer)

I love L.A. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic -- but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. (Andy Warhol)

In Los Angeles, by the time you’re 35, you’re older than most of the buildings (Delia Ephron)

In Los Angeles, everything is 100% organic, except the people. (Kris Kidd, I can’t feel my face)

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star (Denzel Washington)

Here in this hopeless f*cking hole we call LA (Ænema by Tool)


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