One For The Road, Bud
Photo courtesy Don Smith
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Billy
Bob Thornton cited Marlon Brando's technique as an important
influence on
his performance in PUSHING TIN.
Maybe it is the shared Native American vibe that has made both
actors so simpatico in their approach to the craft. With the passing of this
irreplaceable and galvanizing screen legend, Planet Billy Bob's Poet
Laureate, Scott Wannberg, wrote the following poem during a recent
workshop.
Omaha Light
Freight train whistling through Nebraska's resume,
whistling explorations of military academy (kicked out
of due to insubordination), Stella Adler, human behavior
and the planet it rode in on, think of these
bags of songs, these houses of characters, these
fading rivers that ultimately find a way to reach
the possibility of sea. Terry picks up Edie's glove
and the range of human experience is large enough to
contain all exploratory idiosyncracies. Take a Milk Dud,
George C. Soirees in the imagination's bloodstream.
It was my night in the Garden. In all the gardens.
All those nights. Scum sucking pig. Never ever discuss
business outside the family. Make any offer of me you want
and I won't refuse. Omaha's light, a bit diffused here and there,
yet if you look long enough, you can see the fragility of
being alive always at work. Stella?
It was you, Charlie.
Freight trains sauntering through Nebraska cornfields,
whistling riffs of dark moviehouses addressing their
feelings in the ongoing hootenanny of his characters;
Emiliano Zapata returns to his roots,
and now turn up the music if you will because Guys and their Dolls
will be doing somersaults in the Teahouse of the August Moon.
Eccentric bits of river running, you say?
Check out the backbone of the paddle.
The fragility of being alive and vulnerable,
always at work.
It was you, Marlon Brando.
Always alive, vulnerable.
scott
7/11/04
The ultra-prolific Scott Wannberg is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Juice! The Musical, The Electric Yes Indeed, Mr. Mumps, Amnesia Motel, Equal Opportunity Sledgehammer, and Nomads of Oblivion. You can join Scott's lively politics, poetry, and art newsgroup Ongoing Dancers by visiting www.yahoogroups.com and subscribing to OngoingDancers. You can write Scott at mrmumps@earthlink.net.
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