APPLEWEED

[rayheinrich]

'Song lyrics' are not poetry?  Jeez, more of these fucking 'thin'
definitions! Whatever.
 
Repetition is important no matter how fat or thin the definition.
Poetry is about rhythm and you can't get more rhythmic than repetition.

I liked the expanse of the poem. Yeah, sure, it's grand hyperbole of the
'worst' sort; but that's what it's supposed to be and it works.

Especially:
Lovely lady, if you must lose heart,
Then please, re-lose your heart to me…

ray




P.S. ... I'm not sure if you were referencing the term 'appleweed' or the
play and/or movie. I loved the movie, I met the director/writers/actors
Johnny Cotugnoin and Tamara Reynolds in Austin when my wife was doing
a story on the movie.  

More about Johnny Appleweed the movie:

I loved the movie. Maybe not the best movie by conventional standards,
but it's surely ranks as one of the the highest.     What IS supreme is the
dialog/script... no, wait, oh hell, I just plain loved the whole thing.

Youtube has excerpts of various productions of the play and the trailer
for the movie. Maybe the whole thing is there in parts, don't know.

You can download the whole thing here:
http://www.watchfree.to/watch-55d39-John...ocker.html#

To watch it you need to be able to view .avi files.
A free viewer for them is available here:
www.irfanview.com/

.avi is not streaming video, so you do have to wait about 10 to 60 minutes
for it to download (depending on the speed of your internet, it's about 720mb);
BUT the video quality of the .avi is MUCH superior to Youtube, worth the wait.