1. “Action!”
I just don’t know what I’m supposed to be
Whatever you like – I’m just completely lost
Now I’m in this dream place …
you can imagine how I feel
…. That a man’s attitude determines to
a large extent how his life will be
You notice things if you pay attention
Feelings can creep up … I thought I was in control
Separate and equal are two different things … doesn’t make it right
I don’t want to survive … I want to live
Hope and results are different…one doesn’t create the other
[Looking at himself in a mirror]
There’s a reliable disappointment
Some men change – well, they don’t change –
they reveal … themselves over time, you know?
Some … change … Helloooo-OOOOO-oooo
You and I have unfinished business
Tell me what I got to do to make things right
I’m thinking I’m utterly selfish
My angel … flung out of space
Anything interesting up there in heaven?
I was just sending up a prayer of thanks
Without the existence of copies,
we wouldn’t understand the originals
Toscanini once recorded a piece sixty-five times –
“It could be better”
…... (Go. Alone. Without me.) ……
Thump-thump-thump-thump
***
2. When Done is Done – Festival Panel
“…very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris
and looking at the people waking by”
“Everybody’s a mad scientist,
and life is their lab.”
“It’s a reflection as opposed
to an interpretation”
“Maybe more than a teller,
I am a story listener”
Films / Directors: 12 Years a Slave, American Splendor, Bright Star, Brokeback Mountain, Carol, Certified Copy, Hidden Figures, A History of Violence, In the Mood for Love, Inland Empire, Kill Bill, vol.2, Lost in Translation, Mulholland Dr., The Shape of Water, The Tree of Life, Twin Peaks: The Return / David Cronenberg, Claire Denis, Ava DuVernay, Abbas Kiarostami
Sam Rasnake’s works have appeared in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Best of the Web 2009, Wigleaf, MiPOesias Companion 2012, Big Muddy, Poets / Artists, LUMMOX 2012, BOXCAR Poetry Review Anthology 2, and Dogzplot Flash Fiction 2011. His latest poetry collection is Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press).