December 7, 2004
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Poem for the New Year 1982
Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
March 5, 1982 8:00 p.mopening shot
no titles
a lone girl upper right hand frame
lower frame rushing seas
wind blown hair
lavender dress
maybe somewhat beefy thighs but not
much
a serene expression
no words
cut to
a small 4x4 room
posters on the walls a forlorn
young man reclining in a brass bed
playing a guitar
a picture on the dresser of
the lone girl from the previous frame
laughing
the scene is in black and white
x-cept the young man
and the guitarno words
cut to
an antic discussion between
a man resembling myself and the
young man from the previous frameno words
a sound
airplane moving overhead
leaves rustling
dogs barking
cut to
a blue sky
cut to
a jolly evening where everyone
has fun
cut to
an expensive electrical part
falling off a handtruck
cut to
a scene of desolation and rebirth
cut to
a medium shot of a couple
sitting on a sofa watching an
old
Marx Brothers movie on t.v.
They are holding hands
sighing
with their back to the camera
dissolve to
myself
dissolve to
a marching army singing death
songs
now
a frantic diagonal wipe from
the left top of the screen
removes the marchers and
returns the girl by the seas-She turns around and walks
off screen.
close up
of the sea
sea soundsno words
cut to
myself
fadeno words
cut to
myself
fade
no wordsa
film
in poetics
by
Michael
F.
NyiriSong from "The Happenstance Hymnal"
Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri January 4, 1984
I've been standing on the mountain of regret
Don't know how I got here
But it's much too late to fret
And it must have been a long road up I betI've been lying by the river of remorse
Don't know how I came
But no one pushed me here by force
And I've been crying that the devil got me hoarseI've been drinking from the waters of lost time
Know I don't feel thirsty
And I've yet to feel sublime,
But my presence in this hell can't be a crimeOh Lord deliver me
Guide me down the mountain
Steer me o'er the river
Find me purity
Answer all my needless questions
Without requiring a large fee
Oh tender Lord please look out for meI've been talking with the whores of Babylon
Don't know how they got here
But they've been down from dusk to dawn
And the police can't seem to throw
them off the lawn.I've been eating from the tree of sin & sloth
No one handed me a menu
But the tree was on the path
And I know better than to incur
God's powerful wrathI've been waiting for the end, my friend, you see
Banging heads to walls
Bemoaning useless tranquility
Since I haven't got the fare to pay the feeOh Truth show me thine hand
Deliver me from whores
Cut the hammock from the treeIsn't life grand
Answer all my heedless questions
Without requiring a large fee
Oh tarnished truth remember me
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