Daniel Craig skimpy screensaver inspires award-winning poetry

What?! 

It's true. Poet Richard Goodson, a.k.a. dirtyfilthypoet, was so moved by Daniel Craig's impressive bod in Casino Royale, he made himself a screen saver using a still from Craig's infamous beach scene, and then wrote a poem to celebrate it. The piece, entitled Daniel Craig: The Screensaver, just won The Poetry Society's prestigious 2008 Stanza Poetry Competition.  Read the sexy sonnet... after the jump!

Daniel Craig: The Screensaver

…and when I fail to focus, when I tire,

he rises like a Christ newly baptised

in sky blue trunks, reminding me desire

will always lie in wait and be disguised

as men with healing hands and cute-cruel lips

and arms I’d die for should they ever press

too hard against my throat.
                                                            
                                    When water drips

from him the fish swim to his feet, confess

how happily waylaid they are, congeal

in spasmic foil and, even then, mouth how

the breeding pools upstream are no big deal.

 

Before my eyes bake white like theirs I vow

I’ll hit a key. Before I go berserk

I’ll kill him with one finger. Wake up. Work.

—Richard Goodson