Friday, May 6, 2011

ON SEEING EXISTENTIAL STAR WARS

Come now, gentles, can’t we wax positive?
Jean-Paul, must you script their story touting
despair? If Kenobi chooses to live
not, can’t you smooth the plot? Please stop shouting
of failure, existence without reason,
humans churning life’s abstract to evil
cement. What leads you to cause such treason
within our myth? Why not just sip a pill
like most Americans? Why not fantasize
Darth turning from dark to light? Skywalker
converting to peacenik, learning to prize
serenity? Make Solo a stalker
of Leia until they love, hump and play
in some lusty orbit far, far away.

Roger
May 6, 2011