Time

Hagebutte - Dog Rose 39 x 39 cm

CHANGES

Let’s go to the movies

and be someone else for a change.

Self is a burden, we are restless,

we are human, we are restless.

Brad and Angelina let’s be them for a while

or a good not merely good looking Gregory Peck

in To Kill A Mockingbird, a man who does his utmost

and says Yes Sir in such an emphatic fashion

that he must be ironic (right?) but we know that

irony isn’t what he’s about he’s about Justice

is celluloid proof that liberalism ennobles

and I would love to be Warren Beatty in Shampoo

he who manages to have sex with an especially obtuse Republican

businessman’s wife, his mistress and his daughter

—talk about hat trick, talk about Triple Crown—

who’s played by Carrie Fisher, masterpiece of a

precocious high school senior in blue jean cut-offs

or classic tennis whites I don’t remember exactly

who consumes contraceptives and aces physics French

chemistry and is bound for Stanford where she’ll go to bed with

only those professors who can actually teach her something

new which is a mix of back story and conjecture and wishful thinking

and has nothing to do with the movie I would like to be in

and then there’s the The Big Lebowski of course the

“Dude” not brilliant by a long-shot this slacker’s slacker

enthusiastically addicted to bowling and White Russians

and yet he’s almost a new category of human being

complete and perfected in his not entirely indispensable

uniqueness & I’d like to be Michael Corleone

when he finds his vocation & dons the mask

of cold judgment as one of his henchmen leans

forward & whispers in Al Pacino’s (Michael Corleone’s) ear that

all of his rivals have been rubbed out, which is good, they’re a nasty lot

& Pacino looking impassive and utterly Sicilian like fate

itself walking out of an alley-way in Palermo flipping a coin

a young man, probably in his late 20’s, and that’s the contrast

that makes it stick, relative youth crossing over to the Dark Side

which is not a good place to be but a place we like to visit

sometimes because we are restless and we are human, we are restless.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Opening Credits - composer Elmer Bernstein