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"Even Funnier than Pretending
to Do It Is Actually Doing It."

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"Even Funnier than Pretending
to Do It Is Actually Doing It."

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"Action.

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Mania, monster to follow.

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A searchlight against our window
above the block they closed off

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to shoot the Godzilla
remake woke me.

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The neck of a crane was nuzzling
the cathedral downstairs,

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an edit away from fantasy.

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Zoom at will.

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You were still asleep.

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More perfect than one
to one is no scale.

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I thought about it again.

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The day we met, my friend
Bethesda's boyfriend

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explained-- about having let
his roommate Manhattan crawl

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in bed with him
every night she'd

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been gone-- what's even funnier
than pretending to do it.

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And he actually laughed,
she said, and cried.

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It is funny, in actuality.

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Like sitting, standing,
walking, sleeping isn't it.

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An actual secret takes time,
and here-on-out, hypnosis.

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When we went down for
Chinese, every doorway

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had soldiers under walkmen,
doomed extras waiting

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to shoot the illusion again.

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What is not razing, scorching,
swatting and lashing?

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What good is camouflage
on 25th Street?

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And, does Tokyo come back
from something like this?

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In the original, they had
to recreate everything

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in miniature and fill the
screen, steady the camera.

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Now in New York, you put
the succubus in afterward.

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Action mania.

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Tanks edge, troops scramble,
live, aiming for its eyes,

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for platforms on the craning
crane head, a storey above us.

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The commotion is incomplete,
an engine of cries withheld.

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Not so, laughs.

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There is a light
trapped in my eyes, that

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doesn't go when I close them.

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I crouch over you to see
you, to make sure of you.

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The director calls
for Continuity

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to prepare a second take,
a mayhem more the same.

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I'm thinking about it again.

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I am doing it, this
time on location.

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Pandemonium never sleeps.

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You cannot pretend."

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