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By B.K. Date: 2019 Apr 21 Comment on this Work [[2019.04.21.07.30.5011]] |
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We were setting in our favorite booth B2 At Wendell Smiths Having our favorite Turnipgreens and cornbread combo I was telling you about a political cartoon I had just seen Of a firetruck hook and ladder High atop a burning Notre Dame Cathedral I started to cry And then could barely tell you You were so sweet Saying it is ok and wiping my tears I continued to try to describe It was of a fireman Pulling Quasimodo from a Gargoyle To save him from his burning sanctuary I was laughing and crying for Paris And what I had always dreamed of seeing At the same time I remembered Lon Chaney playing the part of the bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral And me as a little kid Being terrified of his poor grotesque soul Then I realized he was the first monster I was ever in love with It was a love and fear thing Empathy for a devil of sorts But was he I asked you to get me the movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame You laughed and promised you would And now thinking and writing this I was with my son Yet somehow You are caught up in this too But not to worry I still have no sympathy Nor empathy for you bk Ray Bradbury once said of Chaney, "He was someone who acted out our psyches. He somehow got into the shadows inside our bodies; he was able to nail down some of our secret fears and put them on-screen. The history of Lon Chaney is the history of unrequited loves. He brings that part of you out into the open, because you fear that you are not loved, you fear that you never will be loved, you fear there is some part of you that's grotesque, that the world will turn away from. the twenty first of april twenty nineteen Happy Easter Everyone |