Life: The Director鈥檚 Cut
by D.G. Geis
O Lord God,
could anyone have made
anything as fucked up as LA?
I鈥檓 sure from your height
everything looks like bird droppings
on a Hyundai hood.
But from my plush armchair
in the lobby of the Courtyard Marriot
in lively downtown Burbank,
it appears you have a plan.
Oh, I don鈥檛 blame you
for wanting to off yourself.
But must you take
the rest of us with you?
So here I sit in a hotel lobby
drinking coffee from a waxed cup
with its carefully crafted corrugated
cardboard lawyer protector
listening to a lady from Nebraska
talk about something called the LA Galaxy,
which I am now beginning to suspect
is not a sport team,
but a blurry spot on the chest x-ray
of your balsa wood Creation.
And while traffic stalls
on West Empire Blvd,
a minor stoppage
somewhere in LA鈥檚 small bowel,
I feel it my bounden duty
to register a formal complaint.
The actors are untrained,
the plot is redundant,
the Director is self-indulgent,
and like all cinema verite,
what makes it so real,
is that nothing is.
So please tell me
that I haven鈥檛 accidentally stepped
through a wormhole
in my immaculately clean
H2O metered low flush eco-sensitive
hotel restroom toilet,
passed through to an alternate universe,
and violated The Prime Directive
by bringing this to your attention.
Me, a hanged man wiggling his toes
just before his neck breaks.
And You, you faithless bastard,
prowling the heavens
like a male mantis
with an eye for the ladies.