Thursday, January 26, 2023

BEST FILMS/TV OF 2022: SECOND DRAFT

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

PETIT MAMAN

HAPPENING

LIVING

AFTERSUN

ARMAGEDDON TIME

NOPE

HATCHING

RESURRECTION 

SPECTOR

SR.

THE DROP OUT

THE LAST MOVIE STARS

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY 

DECISION TO LEAVE 

HONORABLE MENTION: TAR, THE FABELMANS, CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, ELVIS, BROS, WATCHER, MEN, EMPIRE OF LIGHT

Sunday, January 15, 2023

New Poem: GEORGE SANTOS IS A LIAR AND THAT’S THE TRUTH


 as my mother might have said,

 the truth isn’t in him

 and a lot of Republicans think So What?

 the bar was lowered with Jim Jordan,

 Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert

 so it makes sense for Mr. Santos—or is it Devolder—

 to remove the bar and toss it in the House trash bin 

 >

 he played a role (actually, several)

 he got the votes

 he gave professional lie detectors the slip

 and he’ll vote to kneecap your future

 as Kevin McCarthy does nothing 

 and cable news pours water from a deep well

 of George Santos Refuses to Resign stories

 

Saturday, January 14, 2023

New Poem: AN INADEQUATE ANSWER

 two fifteen year-olds on their only date

 were waiting for a theater box office to open 

 and window shopped at the Woolworths next door

 >

 the then-popular family TV series THE WALTONS

 became a topic of conversation 

 she said “Don’t tell me you like THE WALTONS”

 he, not listening to what she was really saying,

 responded with light talk about how the show had

 mountains and clean air, basically escapist stuff

 >

 decades later, he realized she was struggling 

 with unhappiness and other people’s expectations 

 and he wished he had said something different,

 something which could have formed a lasting friendship