Movies: Left to Right, for Norm Fruchter.
The action runs left to right, cavalry, the waterskiers--
then a five-hour film,
The Sleeper, a man sleeping for 5 hours in 15 sequences,
sleeping, left to right, left to right, cavalry, a love scene,
elephants.
Also, the world goes left to right, the moon and all
the stars, sex, too, and newspapers, catastrophe.
[PERIOD MUSIC]
In bed, my wives are to my left.
I embrace them, moving left to right.
I have lived my life that way, growing older,
moving eastward--
the speedometer, the bank balance, architecture,
good music.
All that is most real moves left to right, declares my friend
the scenarist, puffing on a white cigar,
eating the Herald Tribune, the New Republic.
My life is a vision, a mechanism that runs from left to right.
I have lived badly.
Waterskier, I was until recently in the US Cavalry.
Following that, I played elephant to a lead by Tarzan.
Later, I appeared in a film called The Sleeper.
Till today, standing on the edge of things,
falling and about to fall, asking why.
I look back.
Nowhere.
Meanwhile, one or more wives go on stilts for the mail.