Open To Interpretation
Ferdinand
Oh, you have your shady oaks
Green Spring hillsides
And wild flowers,
While I'm in the ring.
Ignore their cheers,
I'll do my best to make them groan.
Lakers
Every fight has two sides
And each has fans
Regardless
If one side never wins
Except on rare occasions.
Matador's Demons
These demons!
They dress me up like a festival flowered saint,
Dote on my every word,
And wear cheering smiling masks
To hide chagrined grimaced disappointment that I survived
Yet again.
Here
Again we lure one another here,
Just to jostle
Forgetful
Of our horns.
Management
It's safe enough
I trust
Management will part us
If our tumble stumbles.
Fourth Wall
Oh! That can't happen!
The bull has leapt the fourth wall!
Run!!!
Olympians
"All the world's a stage"
Somewhere too
Then
Seating for the Olympians
Watching me
Watching you.
DolphinWords
Notes: I got to thinking about bulls and bull fighting...some of the titles are like gags...Ferdinand, Lakers...poems more substantive I hope!...the Fourth Wall is a curio philosophically...don't wonder but the professional philosophers have gone on about it....the fourth wall is the wall between the audience and the actors on stage...the actors don't address the audience, they're not in the play...sometimes, like in Deadpool, or a Daffy Duck cartoon, actors will commensurate with the audience...but the usual is for the audience to take their seats, watch, applaud, and leave...no connection between audience and actors whatsoever...so there's this barrier...fans can't befriend celebrities, and celebrities don't befriend their fans...and, and that's what's going on with social media...for example, I was watching youtube of John Sebastian of The Loving Spoonful singing solo at Woodstock...'darling be home soon'...it was probably the best song there, and that's saying a lot!...and afterwards, as noted in the youtube comments, he thanks the crowd, and walks off stage, back turned, and for a moment just holds his head in disbelief...disbelief in the sense of having participated in something ephemeral and extraordinary!...the connecting moments between performers and fans are probably the most intimate we have, yet they are the most distant...between is the fourth wall...between ourselves and Nature is a fourth wall, and there is a range of attempts by us to cross over it...on youtube I didn't look up bullfights...too cruel...but looked up Minoan Bull Jumping...some cool clips, and one was of a bull in a Spanish arena that jumps the wall into the crowd and stadium seating...animal planet has the best narrated one...oh, the humanity!...fortunately, no one seriously hurt, I think...bull put down of course...on web today story of baby buffalo that was put in a car trunk, or something, haven't read it...buffalo put down too...unfriended!...in the ancient world, bull jumping, or dodging, was widespread...a youtube of bull jumping in Ethiopia was different...a half dozen brahma bulls were positioned side by side, and a fellow just jumps them, after the girls dance...modernity has dressed the girls up!...the recent remake of Jason and the Argonauts has Jason jump a mechanical bull...myself, I'm too tall and stiff to do somersaults...always had a kind of terror of them!...bull charging way beyond!...that could be a poem...the ancient Egyptians entombed their sacred bulls...gigantic granite coffins meticulously crafted...like an entire civilization beating its head against the fourth wall...
"break your crazy heads against the sky"
John Sebastian
:)
DavidDavid
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