03-13-2014, 02:41 AM
I read this this morning, and have been thinking about it, on and off, all day.
It is very visual, it could almost be a film. Certainly the first verse could be an advert for beer - cheeky chappy in sandals, makes his way through the merry throng, to the back bar, where he is served by a woman a smiling woman with cleavage, sips the beer being advertised, before the matey shot at the end.... and the caption.
When I first read it, this section....
"Tautened hamstrings
numbed by a bucket-seat
haul concrete feet
past walls of warnings
into the windowless office
where someone stranger MD"
Had me wondering why suddenly cheery chap from last night was now operating a wrecking ball machine and smashing down a building with his boss in, and why the boss had ignored the warning sign, and just how strong was that brown ale?
And then it struck me that the poem is an advert of sorts a public information film - and like all such films you have the three parts, the carefree bit, then the specific warning of the film, and then the warning of death.
It's very visual - ignoring my misunderstanding with the wrecking ball, I was thinking it was going in a different direction - it could almost be the pitch.
It is very visual, it could almost be a film. Certainly the first verse could be an advert for beer - cheeky chappy in sandals, makes his way through the merry throng, to the back bar, where he is served by a woman a smiling woman with cleavage, sips the beer being advertised, before the matey shot at the end.... and the caption.
When I first read it, this section....
"Tautened hamstrings
numbed by a bucket-seat
haul concrete feet
past walls of warnings
into the windowless office
where someone stranger MD"
Had me wondering why suddenly cheery chap from last night was now operating a wrecking ball machine and smashing down a building with his boss in, and why the boss had ignored the warning sign, and just how strong was that brown ale?
And then it struck me that the poem is an advert of sorts a public information film - and like all such films you have the three parts, the carefree bit, then the specific warning of the film, and then the warning of death.
It's very visual - ignoring my misunderstanding with the wrecking ball, I was thinking it was going in a different direction - it could almost be the pitch.