Tag: filmmaking

Abandoned ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #384

I thought of it
As abandoned
Until I realized
It was simply empty

But for the light

Words
I love them

All the many ways we use them
All the many ways they come to me
All the many ways they coalesce

Promoting insight
Undermining ignorance
Evoking feeling
Forming meaning

Hero
A word of nuance
Of many meanings
Of differences
Subtle and grave

In these hallways
I’ve created oh-so-many worlds
For the dream factory
To film its stories

Police stations
And hospitals
Apartment buildings
And condemned spaces
Secret headquarters
And schools of magic

She asked:
Why can’t something just be ugly?

But it can, I replied.

She looked at me. Puzzled.

It just needs to be cinematically ugly.
Which is to say
It must still be beautiful.

Still puzzled.
So I expanded.

Sometimes I am called quite late
To set
On a Friday
In the afternoon

They serve us eggs on toast
With bacon (Gawd, we love bacon!)
We greet each other
“Good morning!”

This is the Story Machine
It loves tragedy
And violence
And Happy Endings

And so its stories tell us
A world all out-of-kilter
At war, and in poverty
Has Happy Endings