LPiA-22 Nov. 14

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Worst Movie


Perhaps the worst movie of all time
was also one of the first: 
D. W. Griffith's Birth
of a Nation which portrayed
Ku-Klux Klan as heroes,
blacks as vilely as one can conceive
and Lincoln’s assassination
in a way that Woodrow Wilson,
rabid racist unsurpassed,
declared ex cathedra “as it was.”

Yet Nation also birthed
in shocking maturity
each cinematic trick, trope, and technique
the form has ever since deployed–
an entire art, its natal masterpiece
in service to a lie.

Duke,

Excellent job!  I read the Wikipedia article about this film, thinking I might do a poem about it myself, but the more I read, the less I wanted to do it.  But you've hit the high/low points with exceptional concision.