To an infant still-born
Were you a water-baby
While you skimmed the fluid
By dead certainty of life
‘Mong the knotted grass of blood
And colloidal ooze
Of some primeval womb?
Death erased the name
And a few inconsequential
Particulars that perforce
Ride the tail of life
To fill a musty corner
Of Registrar’s office.
Death has spared the fret-
Those frantic cares and dull unease
The living suffer daily.
You [...]
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Poetry Please!-romancing dead
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A Streetcar Named Desire-1951
Posted in entertainment, tagged 100 Best Films, Hollywood movies, On the waterfront, Tennessee Williams on May 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One may be pardoned after seeing this movie if he were to ask, “What is the good of harrowing people like that?” This opening line isn’t mine but I am echoing a review of Brooks Atkinson of the play in the NY Times in 1947.’There is no purpose in “Streetcar.” It solves no problems;it arrives [...]
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