OTI:one poem and notes:7/24/17

Open To Interpretation

 

Near Here

So, I look about to see the deejay

I hear, but the microphone is empty.

Hmmph, all those imprecations canned, I'd say.

'And what else?' I think dismayed. 'Oh, plenty!'

I relax, my feet up, with my popcorn,

And watch my movie, and my movie me.

And there right before me, where stars are born,

Everything is, or not to be, maybe.

Oh, deep sigh for things said and unsaid, said

Forwards and backwards and around around,

Un-recorded recorded: fate reworded.

Only maybe here, something sometimes found.

Come near, Destiny, I'll whisper my name:

Blue Sky. Don't tell. You, I, are just the same.

DolphinWords

Notes: well, I borrowed some of the spirit of the back and forth dialog between Valerian and Lauriline in movieValerianCityOfAThousandPlanets2017...not much, but enough to credit...rolled out this evening to Regal and saw movieWarForThePlanetOfTheApes2017...I saw a few of the first in this saga, but I missed some, so was falling in plot holes...and it's another dystopian tale with Prometheus take...audience was small, and cheered on the apes!...what does that portend?...took note yesterday of CNN news reporting on the operational lazer cannon deployed on a ship in the Persian Gulf...cannon is the wrong word for it...it doesn't make any noise, you can't see the beam, the target instantaneously heats up from the photons...I gather it's been around awhile, so something everyone is noting is the announcement...what does that portend?...in the opening of movie Valerian, it has a critiically acclaimed vignette...with song Major Tom playing, the first one...they could have used STG's!...space capsule passengers after a docking in space meet one another and shake hands, three on a side...first, Americans and Russians, then the Chinese are added, then from many countries on Earth as they develop and send up astronauts to meet and greet too...the handshakes always the central motif...then the aliens begin arriving from far away worlds, three at time, and the handshaking becomes problematic!...it's very well done...in fact, all the vignettes in the film are well done, but they go by so quick, one misses their import...and there is a counterpart import if one pictures the history of weapon technology...first are fists, then we pick up stones, then sticks, clubs, spears, adding stone projectile points, then bronze weapons, iron weapons, and gunpowder weapons, and nuclear weapons...at each juncture, there must have been a sigh of dismay, as at each juncture the weapons became more deadly...lazer weapons have been a part of science fiction story telling for so long, that everyone is kind of blauze, I think, over the news that now they really do exist...I myself was much stricken on seeing how it worked...my over zealous imagination being such...I wont elaborate on what I think this thing can do...oh, but I did make a poem draft...tried to work it into a sonnet, but it was resisting!...and I think I'll just leave it in it's rough draft form...apologies to CNN and Wolf Blitzer!...

Wolf On The Cannon

draft 1

Ah now there is a cannon

That neither smokes nor booms

Some invisible shell explodes

Or not hot  or not somewhat like the mixing valves on your shower.

Most likely much too hot, otherwise

Why bother.

And you'll not know from which direction it came this tidy photon stream that un-tames your skins set afire in wild fire hosing

And how cool comported the targeting observers like serene apocalyptic avenging angels

As close to you as now or as far away as tomorrow or yesterday

Just so you won't know the time

Zone of your Judgement Day.

You may only loose a tooth

Or an eye, but most likely

You and yours will all away

In a blink un-perceived.

In truth this canon is nothing new

And where's the storied fun in instant oblivion?

 

 

draft2

Wolf On The Cannon

now there is a cannon that neither smokes

nor booms.  An Invisibly hot tinned fork now looms.

And you'll not know from which direction it came this tidy photon stream that untames your skins set aflame in wild fire hosing

And how cool comported the targeting observers like serene apocalyptic avenging angels

As close to you as now or as far away as tomorrow or yesterday

Just so you won't know the time

Zone from whence came your judgement day.

You may only loose a tooth

Or an eye, but most likely

You and yours will all away

In a blink un perceived.

In truth, nothing new, this quiet cannon

where's the story in instant oblivion?

I can retreat from this, reporting all this,

Which is only to say I don't know what this is
What this is is,

Soon we will all live like doomed to fry ants

Pick up your burdens,
Salute one another's passings

sisters and brethren

I can retreat from reporting all this,

Which is to say I don't know what this is

Except say it will end humanity's bliss,

As soon we will all live ruled by this new whiz.

ral...reviewing I'm tempted to work it up...what I could do with 'blitz' blitzer'!...

:)

DavidDavid