Maybe
I don’t want to survive.
Maybe
I’d rather perish on a dead planet so my dead friends can bring dead flowers to
my empty grave.
And
you know it’s no big thing dying. We’ve done it all before except in reverse.
Now you’re just climbing back inside of the womb and when it wraps around you
like a sausage casing you’ll forget you were ever here in the first place.
Caught
Topper on TCM.
Fell
asleep about thirty or forty minutes in.
I
was enjoying it though and will return to it again soon.
Old
movies are so much smarter and full of life than the shit they’re passing off
as cinema these days.
And
where were you when Eve tempted Adam with the pomegranate?
And
what did you think when Eve was created from Adam’s rib?
If
I had known we were having barbecue for dinner I wouldn’t have eaten such a big
lunch.
Caught
myself watching you from afar.
It
was like the old days before we were well acquainted and everything impressed
you and the sweet bird of youth still raged inside of you like The Black Keys
before they were bitten by a Danger Mouse.
They
say Cleveland is the Rock and Roll Capital of the world. I call them on their
bullshit and do my very best to remind them of Cosimo Matassa and his recording
studio at the back of his family’s shop on Rampart Street, in the French
Quarter of New Orleans.
And
don’t even get me started about Sam Phillips and that young truck driver who
just wanted to make a record for his mama.
Maybe
I’d rather just crawl up into a misshapen ball and go the way of the dinosaurs
and old talk show hosts.
Have
you seen Letterman lately? I want to go stand on his lawn just so he can yell
at me and I can give the king of late night the finger as I’m hauled off by the
fat pigs passed off as policemen today.
And
you know we make too much of a fuss over dying. Even Princess Leia’s mother
dying from grief is a whole heck of a lot better than suffering for years from
an undisclosed illness or having your brain eaten away by plaque as everyone
you once loved becomes a stranger and Brief
Encounter a film you enjoyed long
ago no longer makes any sense to you.
Charles Cicirella
12/29/16
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