Under a swirl of swifts swimming
an updraft of the city hall smokestack
Wearing an outfit that perfectly matched the turquoise red and white Kentucky Theater sign
Goldie and I discussed the film
Life of Chuck
Described as “wonderful at times”
and “This generation’s ‘It’s a Wonderful Life”
(Which makes us a very sad generation indeed)
A Stephen King novel short story
that aggravatingly reminded me of the two part prose poem I became suddenly embarrassed about finishing,
It was both an apocalypse movie and a Death movie, and also a dance movie.
The dancing made me cry, despite being badly edited to the soundtrack,
But Tom Hiddleston, the lead, is only in it for 10 minutes, and most of that he was dancing and really living.
It started out as a funny critique of modern reliance on the internet
which seemed so promising.
Although this turned out to be some alternate but parallel life of our hero’s
Who after everything
And before the end of the world
And universe
chooses a life in accounting, perhaps moved by Mark Hamill or Carl Sagan? I don’t know.
The best part was much later when Goldie remembered a bit from Rick and Morty, where they play an arcade game called “Roy”
the object of which is to live the entire life of a guy who works at a rug store and gets cancer.
Once again proving that writing is a job
anyone can do to varying degrees of success
