Sunday, June 23, 2013
Besides, a Garden Wall
Aftersong
After he quite often dreamt in vain,
Death came for him as efficiently
as it did for Charles Foster Kane.
AMA’s Pathologists had forced
the issue and all municipalities
had to perform autopsies now,
though no foul play indicated.
Dr Singh held up the very heart
in that gray light. “Heavy!
Weigh! I think may be full
of stardust memories.”
Labels: autopsy, Citizen Kane, love, love song, Stardust
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Two Classic Films
Third Man still shades Citizen Kane in
my judgment, with its vile characters
rushing huge against floodlit ruins.
Gritty postwar utter exhaustion.
The wickedness, and crushed innocence,
work-a-day military straining underdepravity and political burlesque.
But the American film more specifically prophetic.*
*...decent, hard-working people in this community...
robbed blind by a pack of money-mad pirates...
Labels: Citizen Kane, film, Third Man
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Citizen Kane Anticipates Modern Wall Street
"I want to make sure that decent hard-working people in this community aren't robbed blind by a pack of money-mad pirates, just because they haven't anybody to look after their interests."
"I want to make sure that decent hard-working people in this community aren't robbed blind by a pack of money-mad pirates, just because they haven't anybody to look after their interests."
Labels: Citizen Kane, Wall Street
