Sean Penn's #MeToo poem seems to defend Charlie Rose, Louis C.K.

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Roses are red, violets are blue, and now Sean Penn has pissed off #MeToo.

The actor-turned-novelist wrote a poem as the epilogue to his new book, “Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff,” in which he muses, “Once crucial conversations/Kept us on our toes;/Was it really in our interest/To trample Charlie Rose?” and “Where did all the laughs go?/Are you out there Louis C.K.?”

Both Rose and C.K. have been accused of serious sexual misconduct, which Rose has denied.

Penn perilously ponders, “And what’s with this ‘Me Too’?/This infantilizing term of the day/Is this a toddler’s crusade?/Reducing rape, slut-shaming, and suffrage to reckless child’s play?”

The poem has horrified members of the #MeToo movement (and, presumably, poets).

A representative tweet — this one by @carlyjennifer — reads, “Here’s a poem for Sean Penn: Shut/the/f ---/up.”

The book has been met with a somewhat baffled reception.

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While it has shot to the top of the “absurdist fiction” list on Amazon and Salman Rushdie said of it, “It seems wrong to say that so dystopian a novel is great fun to read, but it’s true. I suspect that Thomas Pynchon and Hunter S. Thompson would love this book,” the New York Times review puzzled, “What have you done this time, Sean Penn? What is this book-shaped thing that lies before us?”

This article originally appeared in the New York Post's Page Six.