My Acidulous Body

You know what I think?
My body got stuck
In a tangle of arms and legs;
Arms need elbow room
And legs need ground
To stand on.
They get what they wish for;
As for body simple
Nothing but annoyance:
Fingers pick lint
Off navel unasked,
Or scratch the small of  back
As tho’ they did it some service.
Such complaints flying back and forth
Pile up : you [...]

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Rashomon-1950

The German filmmaker Werner Herzog said that Rashomon is the closest to “perfect” a film can get. However when first released most Japanese critics called the film a failure: It failed in “visualizing the style of the original stories,” was “too complicated,” “too monotonous,” and contained “too much cursing.” No surprise. No filmmaker is without [...]

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