23.-24. movie script ending
Posted on April 23rd, 2009 by desert ratPosted in National Poetry Month, Poetry | 6 Comments »
Part 2 of the Twinned Poetry project. These can be read as two separate poems or as one connected poem. You can read Part 1 here (“little voices”).
| Will you give me a movie script ending if I promise to follow you down the dark alley (but not the kind with blood on the wall or drowned children’s ghosts or a fairytale wedding) Will you give me a Hollywood ending if I promise to rescue you after the crash (I want the kind that tastes bitter-sweet a lump in the throat wiping tears from your cheek) Will you give me a movie script ending if I promise to catch you at the last minute We’ll watch the plane fly away watch the tail-lights fade into the fog, lone survivors of the three-act story arch we’ll throw the script away and improvise the rest |
Everything I ever wanted everything I need this tarnished soul of wayward dreams we both know all too well everyone leaves everyone bleeds everything I could imagine was born in darkness from hidden light we wandered blindly after the fight blood in our mouths smoke in our eyes we found each other nothing else mattered running on empty on four flat tires we learned to coast uphill & sideways as if we never needed gravity or plot devices we’ll burn the parish notices learn to soar without a net |
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to hell with a movie script ending. |
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- T.H.
Cafe writing /Twin Poems #2, for NaPoWriMo
(Title borrowed from a song by Death Cab for Cutie)
