High Plains Drifting with Godard
lawless territorial imperatives hire
an unknown quantity to assert claims for
revolution against powers-that-be
2- Paris was never like this! Not even
during upheavals of 1968: anarchy is
a disease ideologues do not recover from
3- Disenfranchised samurai plays both sides of
warring factions against the middle; unkempt,
unwashed, unshaven he projects a totally
give-a-shit attitude;
4- kills without warning then scratches his balls
(…..) afterwards; bring him food, alcohol, women
before he kills again
5- In our Wild West a ronin’s equivalent
is an outlaw, the man with no name warring
for truth and justice; Existentialism in action!
6- Years after the failed revolution, former rads
are stock brokers, import-exporters,
corporate chieftains
7- who only drink bottled water, designer wines,
unblended scotch; where have all their values gone?
8- Gone to Jerry Lewis revivals, retrospective
film festivals every one
Warhol's Sleep(er)
1- Eight hours alone in a darkened
bedroom; only Howard Cosell
speaks
2- On stage women show themselves
as walking advertisements,
Super Stars; love is for sale
3- Artificial sex is a machine
dream, a locked revolving cabinet;
an alien species emerges after,
totally transformed
4- Newsreel footage transposed over wall-
papered bedroom walls; a misleading monologue
ensues; the dreaming sleeper turns (…..)
5- Preservation Hall Jazz Band sound
track provides restless lie-about,
subject, a point counterpoint
for waking
6- before dawn; eight hours of
watching nothing happen is way
too long
Alan Catlin has published a number of full-length collections of poetry recently including. Exterminating Angels and How Will the Heart Endure? (Kelsay Books), Listening to a Moonlight Sonata (Impspired) and Bar Guide for the Seriously Deranged (Roadside Press). He is the poetry and reviews editor of Misfitmagazine.net