New poem: WORKING ON WILD BILL

Wild Bill e un Western terminale--from WALTER HILL by Simone Emillani and Mauro Gervasini

it was a pleasure to do next to nothing

first, curling into a fetal position

and then lay on a bed with a blank stare

all of this meant to simulate opium addiction

while Jeff Bridges as Wild Bill Hickok

carrying the foreground part of the scene

as a pretend cowboy with real facial growth,

I had a couple of good days

at what used to be the

Samuel Goldwyn studio

where, at lunch,

I was less than a foot away

from part of the history of Hollywood:

producer Richard Zanuck

sat at the same lunch table

not too proud to eat with

mere 65-dollar-a-day extras