#lockwood - Hello Poetry

One evening I sat down with my dinner to watch an episode of the original Star Trek series With Captain Kirk, Spock and Bones, Dr.McCoy But when I turned on the TV 'The Six Million Dollar Man came on Obviously they'd shown all the episodes of Star Trek and were now starting to show The Six Million Dollar Man Now we never watched The Six Million Dollar Man growing up, it was really for the younger generation, the younger kids But I decided to watch it anyway as there was nothing else on And it was OK, it was nicely done I noticed the guest star in the episode was an actor named Gary Lockwood Now I knew Gary Lockwood was famous for playing one of the astronauts in the movie '2001, A Space Odyssey ' He was also famous for appearing in the very second episode of the original Star Trek series (think it was the second) It was a great episode, he gets zapped (electrocuted) by an alien entity And then starts turning into this superhuman being with dangerous ESP powers The Captain and his colleagues have to get rid of him before he grows too powerful He's famously going to "squash them all like insects" Now I also remembered seeing him in a movie once in the 70's I had to look it up on his Wikipedia page It was so long since I'd seen it It was called "Model Shop" It was a curious movie, kind of an art movie It was like a postcard to Los Angeles and the late sixties He was driving around Los Angeles in a small antique type motor car He had quit his job and was about to be drafted into the army (to go and fight in Vietnam) He was short of money, had girlfriend problems and had become fascinated by a mysterious French lady, I looked up the movie on Wikipedia just out of curiosity, for nostalgia reasons I suppose I noticed it was directed by a Frenchman named Jacques Demy Now I never heard of Jacques Demy before So I looked him up too just to see what kind of career he had and had he ever made any other movies And yes, he was noted for several movies but especially for one in particular One that was regarded as a classic It was called "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" Some people have called it the greatest musical ever made It was a movie where strangely the dialogue was all sung It was also the movie that made the French actress Catherine Deneuve a star And the strange thing was, I'd never even heard of it before. My interest was piqued so I looked up the movie and was blown away I thought the French language would be a clunky language if sung But here it's wonderful, it flows so beautifully and naturally You quickly get used to the dialogue being sung And it seems to heighten the emotions of what's being said The story I suppose is about innocence and young love and then the world intruding and upsetting everything The movie was made in 1964 when a lot of movies were still being made in Black and white But it was made in glaring colour, it's so lovely to look at Even the wallpaper has a staring role. For me it was a magical movie experience, a delightful discovery I've watched it several times since It proved a pleasant distraction during the cold Winter months.

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Sep 2, 2024

Sep 2, 2024 at 5:29 PM UTC

bardo

The Road to Cherbourg

One evening I sat down with my dinner to watch an episode of the original Star Trek series With Captain Kirk, Spock and Bones, Dr.McCoy But when I turned on the TV 'The Six Million Dollar Man came on Obviously they'd shown all the episodes of Star Trek and were now starting to show The Six Million Dollar Man Now we never watched The Six Million Dollar Man growing up, it was really for the younger generation, the younger kids But I decided to watch it anyway as there was nothing else on And it was OK, it was nicely done I noticed the guest star in the episode was an actor named Gary Lockwood Now I knew Gary Lockwood was famous for playing one of the astronauts in the movie '2001, A Space Odyssey ' He was also famous for appearing in the very second episode of the original Star Trek series (think it was the second) It was a great episode, he gets zapped (electrocuted) by an alien entity And then starts turning into this superhuman being with dangerous ESP powers The Captain and his colleagues have to get rid of him before he grows too powerful He's famously going to "squash them all like insects" Now I also remembered seeing him in a movie once in the 70's I had to look it up on his Wikipedia page It was so long since I'd seen it It was called "Model Shop" It was a curious movie, kind of an art movie It was like a postcard to Los Angeles and the late sixties He was driving around Los Angeles in a small antique type motor car He had quit his job and was about to be drafted into the army (to go and fight in Vietnam) He was short of money, had girlfriend problems and had become fascinated by a mysterious French lady, I looked up the movie on Wikipedia just out of curiosity, for nostalgia reasons I suppose I noticed it was directed by a Frenchman named Jacques Demy Now I never heard of Jacques Demy before So I looked him up too just to see what kind of career he had and had he ever made any other movies And yes, he was noted for several movies but especially for one in particular One that was regarded as a classic It was called "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" Some people have called it the greatest musical ever made It was a movie where strangely the dialogue was all sung It was also the movie that made the French actress Catherine Deneuve a star And the strange thing was, I'd never even heard of it before. My interest was piqued so I looked up the movie and was blown away I thought the French language would be a clunky language if sung But here it's wonderful, it flows so beautifully and naturally You quickly get used to the dialogue being sung And it seems to heighten the emotions of what's being said The story I suppose is about innocence and young love and then the world intruding and upsetting everything The movie was made in 1964 when a lot of movies were still being made in Black and white But it was made in glaring colour, it's so lovely to look at Even the wallpaper has a staring role. For me it was a magical movie experience, a delightful discovery I've watched it several times since It proved a pleasant distraction during the cold Winter months.

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(imitated from Patricia Lockwood’s **** Joke) The woman joke isn’t something you choose. The woman joke is something you get used to. The woman joke it almost becomes your livelihood. Remember when you were little, boys had cooties, but so did girls. Imagine what would happen today if you said boys had cooties- Nothing. You’ll hear the woman joke when you’re way too young. The ones telling the joke probably won’t realize that the joke they’re telling isn’t a joke at all. But girls have cooties and they always will. You’ll grow up, but nothing will change. The woman joke is now commonplace. The norm! How can a joke be so common normal? The only people who think the joke isn’t normal are women. The woman joke is when even the President can make the joke without consequence. But you can’t. The woman joke is that if you make one, it suddenly isn’t funny anymore, men will look away in disgust, and other women will say you’re degrading them and yourself. It’s just a joke, you’d say. Even though you knew it wasn’t. The woman joke is an expected icebreaker at a party that you learn to laugh at. When you go home at night, you shake with rage but know there’s nothing you can do about it. How can such a joke exist? Because you do.

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Jan 23, 2019

Jan 23, 2019 at 2:33 PM UTC

khart-film

The Woman Joke | Imitation Poem

(imitated from Patricia Lockwood’s **** Joke) The woman joke isn’t something you choose. The woman joke is something you get used to. The woman joke it almost becomes your livelihood. Remember when you were little, boys had cooties, but so did girls. Imagine what would happen today if you said boys had cooties- Nothing. You’ll hear the woman joke when you’re way too young. The ones telling the joke probably won’t realize that the joke they’re telling isn’t a joke at all. But girls have cooties and they always will. You’ll grow up, but nothing will change. The woman joke is now commonplace. The norm! How can a joke be so common normal? The only people who think the joke isn’t normal are women. The woman joke is when even the President can make the joke without consequence. But you can’t. The woman joke is that if you make one, it suddenly isn’t funny anymore, men will look away in disgust, and other women will say you’re degrading them and yourself. It’s just a joke, you’d say. Even though you knew it wasn’t. The woman joke is an expected icebreaker at a party that you learn to laugh at. When you go home at night, you shake with rage but know there’s nothing you can do about it. How can such a joke exist? Because you do.

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She tasted like watermelon on a july day   pink and juicy  Mostly liquid (transparent) but full of flavor   a rosebud mouth that inhaled like I did   bitter meals of smoke from tin foil and glass   She laughed like echoes off ancient cave walls   all experience and fire   dangerous arousal from a primitive state   I gave her my greatest possession  sharing with eyes wide open   She fights without going to Geneva   ***** with bricks  taking hits like a man  deep breaths of poison and still she trudges on   She smelled like gardenias inside my palms   familiar and hand-picked  infested with seeds   but all that I can recall is her on my lips;   pink and juicy   tasting like watermelon on a july day.

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Jul 18, 2014

Jul 18, 2014 at 2:45 AM UTC

alice-7

For Lara

She tasted like watermelon on a july day   pink and juicy  Mostly liquid (transparent) but full of flavor   a rosebud mouth that inhaled like I did   bitter meals of smoke from tin foil and glass   She laughed like echoes off ancient cave walls   all experience and fire   dangerous arousal from a primitive state   I gave her my greatest possession  sharing with eyes wide open   She fights without going to Geneva   ***** with bricks  taking hits like a man  deep breaths of poison and still she trudges on   She smelled like gardenias inside my palms   familiar and hand-picked  infested with seeds   but all that I can recall is her on my lips;   pink and juicy   tasting like watermelon on a july day.

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