A Celluloid Entrapment

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A Celluloid Entrapment

THE LITTLE MAN
ACROSS THE STREET
LIVES A GRAY SCALE LIFE
WITH A NEGATIVE
POINT OF VIEW
FROM ARRIFLEX
TO BELL & HOWELL
EVERY DAY'S THE SAME
HE WANTS A COLOUR TOUCH
BUT ONLY GETS
A SEPIA WASH
HE NEEDS
A TECHNICOLOR PALETTE
HE AIN'T GOT
AN ANAMORPHIC
WIDESCREEN LIFE
ONLY STANDARD ASPECT RATIOS
THEN THERE'S
NO WALL-TO-WALL DOLBY STEREO
JUST REGULAR MONO SOUND
FROM A SINGLE BATTERED SPEAKER
NO GENERATED SPECIAL FX
JUST OLD CREAKING, FLOPPY,
FLAKEY STUDIO SETS
A ONE TRACK LIFE
SPENT ON HIS OWN.
NO MULTIPLEX
OR
CABLE HOOK UP
TO BRIGHTEN UP HIS LIFE.
ONE DAY HIS PRINTS
MAY COME ALONG
BUT
WHEN STORM CLOUDS CLEAR
HE GETS A
DRIED OUT RAINBOW
THAT ENDS UP
IN A STORM DRAIN
NO POT OF GOLD
JUST A LARGE GRAY PLASTIC BAG
AND
AN OVERLOADED DUMPSTER

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Hey, Brit. It's good to see you posting original stuff again.

Great diction, and who would know the argot better than an editor.

Love the "gray scale life" phrase.

One might say this poem is wrapped around with Dolby sound. Razz

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boom boom Letty. lights, sound, camera, action

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....and that's a wrap. Had that phrase as a clue in the New York Time's puzzle, and the answer turned out to be "diaper". UhOh!

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is that a wet or plain old shitty answer in the crossword puzzle

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Who knows the workings of the NYT's editor, Will Shortz. Heh! Heh!

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typical of wordsmiths the world over.
diction, grammar, punctuation to wonder over

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Wow! oakman. My computer crashed and I had to go through the procedure of logging in and getting a new password.

It was that six letter word what done it. Smile

Ode to LeBrat

Please remove the hair from the lens,
Deja vu all over again.

Another tribute to your writing,
Ravaged Face and Stairwell citing.

Zeppelin of lead,
Eye of newt
Cauldron of steam
Now that's a hoot.

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6 letter word ? SOOPER

Lens hair isn't itchy, unlike nose hair

Zeppelin of lead,
Eye of newt
Cauldron of steam
Now that's a hoot. I Put A Spell On You

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...and I've got my eye of newt on you, John Lee Hooker.

Speaking of owls, (we were speaking of owls, were we not).

To wit; to woo; who are you? Talk about a vanishing language.

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strewth Letty, speaking of owls, I'll have to have a little rabbit & pork (talk) with St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals. He likes having a dicky bird (word ) with animal overs. COCK A DOODLE DOO

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Love your cockney sparrer, John.

A Dickey-bird whispered, "Haven't you heard
Spring is here, Spring is here, Spring is here."
A little crow sang a happy hello
"My favorite time of the year."
A little frog sang a song on his log
"Lose your blues, lose your blues, lose your blues."
And you and I fell in love in reply
on hearing the Dickey-bird's news.

Where in the world did that song come from, I wonder?

Blimey, bloke. We'll have to have a natter about the drummer who tried to gain illegal entrance to my neighbor's drum. (for real)

Bloody bastard Evil or Very Mad

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Has Plod felt the tea leaf's collar yet or has he done a runner on his plates of meat ?
Course, these geezers 'ave no respect for anyones gear. If it's not nailed down and they can lift it, then get it inside their jamjar, then it's fair game.

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Letty scurries to her cockney dictionary to rummage through for explicit translation. Hmmmmm. All I could find was Jimi Hendrix doing The Star Spangled Banner. Shocked

Guess he's sittin' in the cat bird's seat and tearin' up the pea patch.

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Little Cock Robin has just been iced by the Sparrer for the umpteenth tyme. The pigeons had the pea patch then had another pee just for the sodding hell of it.

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