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Movies: Left to Right,
for Norm Fruchter.

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The action runs left to right,
cavalry, the waterskiers--

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then a five-hour film,

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The Sleeper, a man sleeping
for 5 hours in 15 sequences,

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sleeping, left to right, left
to right, cavalry, a love scene,

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elephants.

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Also, the world goes left
to right, the moon and all

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the stars, sex, too, and
newspapers, catastrophe.

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[PERIOD MUSIC]

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In bed, my wives are to my left.

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I embrace them,
moving left to right.

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I have lived my life
that way, growing older,

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moving eastward--

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the speedometer, the bank
balance, architecture,

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good music.

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All that is most real moves left
to right, declares my friend

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the scenarist, puffing
on a white cigar,

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eating the Herald
Tribune, the New Republic.

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My life is a vision, a mechanism
that runs from left to right.

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I have lived badly.

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Waterskier, I was until
recently in the US Cavalry.

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Following that, I played
elephant to a lead by Tarzan.

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Later, I appeared in a
film called The Sleeper.

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Till today, standing
on the edge of things,

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falling and about
to fall, asking why.

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I look back.

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Nowhere.

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Meanwhile, one or more wives
go on stilts for the mail.

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