How to tell a story

How to tell a story

Friday, April 19, 2013

History As A Film

Sometimes I feel like I'm trapped
in a movie house and can't leave
until the film is over but it's the
longest most boring movie I've
ever seen, the same story repeated
over and over again, okay with
different actors and different settings
but the same actions, over and
over until I want to scream, I
might as well be trapped in
an elevator with endless Muzak

and you get desperate when subjected
to this kind of torture, you take
risks you might not take otherwise
attempts to escape the movie house
just for the variety of it
and you come up with outrageous
schemes to stop the movie
to pull the electric plug
plunge the city into darkness
anything but this

which is about the time the film
teases you with change
a new plot point!
but no, just a clever tease
to keep you engaged
nothing new here at all
the same repetitive story
new actors, new setting
on and on and on
no end in sight unless
you drop dead on the spot

or is this too part
of this long boring
plot?