Rachel D. said:
Does anyone else find Bono's poem a little dirty? 
I think the fact that he used a crude/slang word like "tits" kinda killed the poem for me and made it seem suddenly shallow and not beautiful anymore.
Please read the poem again, slowly. The use of the word "tits" was deliberate, but definitely not shallow or dirty. He was referring to how, as a model, she was objectified, but how, as a human being, she was always greater than that. She was never just the perfect image, the plastic surgeon's work of art....
"...like a surgeon's knife that can't stop till everyone looks the same:
What a nose, what lips, what hips, what tits", this echoing the vulgar, everyday objectification of a model's anatomy.
He counters this by saying:
"This season? That was never your reason." (The season being, in at least one sense, the fashion "season")
"The camera was always in your hand wasn't it?
Wise
Directing happily your own demise...."
She has ceased to be the object and has instead become the observer and especially the creator of art, as a photographer instead of a passive model.
It's wonderful, a really good piece of poetry. Please give it another chance.
(Edited to add: I don't think it's a good idea to talk about other Interferencers in the way you have about our friend from Australia/New Zealand. It may be seen as being a bit rude.)
