My Poems

“Percila McQuillan’s Glorious adventures through the Gumble Drop Fields”

Percila McQuillan Jumbles and Joyals her way through the tenacious defenses of the turbulent Gumble Drop Fields. The Fumbles and the Foials gefrunder the auspicious lilies, while the Daffodils run rampant on the eastern shore.

Percial McQuillan is Spirited away by the trops and the toadskinks, for they know the ancient legends of the Gumble Drop Fields.

“The Daemons of Bridals Deep”

The Daemons of Bridals Deep Gecrunch and Gescheckt the youth of the Forest Lily Guild, while their elders stalk the tree ferns in the Gumble Drop Fields. Each Spring the Daemons of Bridals Deep are beseeched in the hopes that they will cease there cruel and maniacal actions. Yet each Spring the Forest Lilly Guilds emissary besmirches his pants before ever reaching the dark and dreadful lair of The Daemons of Bridals Deep.

“Percila McQuillan and the Clock Works Peoples”

The Worlolocks will pick at clocks
to find the men inside.
The clocks turn 10, but then again
Percila McQuillan in June.

part 2 

The Worlolocks will pick at clocks
to find the men inside.
The clocks strike 10, but then again
one cannot help but hide.
The Worlolocks devour Shmocks
to release their inner pride.
There pride is deep and will not creep
for anyone aside.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Ernest HemingwayA Farewell to Arms, 1929
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
— Hunter S. Thompson
If I’d written the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people—including me—would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
— Hunter S Thompson, Rolling Stone, February 15, 1973

Film #1

Script

Title: Film 1

SCENE 1: interior, probably common room. the character is sitting on a couch in front of a white wall smoking a cigaret.

X- Maybe I’m a little bit crazy. Maybe not….(Jason Mraz I’m yours “Well open up your mind and see like me….”)… What?

(in head; not out loud)

X- (Fuck! can you not look at me!? Can you hear me? Am I talking, I don’t think so. Maybe I should just…)

X-Wait what was I saying

Y-“Kant himself would insist that if criminals are not responsible agents, it makes no sense to resent their behavior and “punish” them for it.”

(in head; not our loud)

X-( I think it’s fascinating that their were at one point different species of man.  That not all of us were the same. I should probably google this more later. Oh Snap! They’re still talking to me. Maybe I should pay attention? I really can’t though. God I used to be a marine…..I wish I still was sometimes…SOI was,……Fuck….Damn long ago.  Feels like years….)

Y-Yo fucker! Fucker! what the fuck are you doing staring at that iphone? Let me see dammit! Shit son, there aint nothing there.

Y- Ok. Brian is gonna hook up with this girl we met. It’s just a matter of when. But me and his friend are betting on it.  When you think it’ll happen?

X-Fuck.

Y-If I go down there this weekend it could effect it too, cause if I’m there Brian may decide to just chill instead. so….I’m thinking thursday or saturday.

X-II just wrote that in my script.

Y-I need a fucking job.

(In head; not out loud)

X-(Well Kyles yellinga to me to give him a date to choose for when Brians gona hookup with the girl he met. And I said a week and he said no thats no good. And I said now you’re yelling.)

Y-Shit son did you see the football game? Oh wait…you don’t watch football. You’re to damn good for sports right?!?

X- Yo! Yo! Listen to this shit. For some reason I liked it when I heard it, and have listened to it a lot since. No one listens to them. More people listen to my cousin, and they are way better.(Laughs Out Loud) Did you listen to the link?

Y-I’m not even listening to a damn word you’re saying anymore. But fuck wanna get wasted later?

X-Sure.

(In head; out loud)

X-(I need a fucking tape recorder, so as to, what? So I can record everything. So nothing slips through. So I can write, but not just write….So I can write what I see..no write what I hear. I think it might be to abstract, or not make sense. I’ll find out in the morning I think.)

—————-(Dashboard starts playing by Modest Mouse)————————

X-What were we talking aboot eh?

X-Oh fuck it, it doesn’t matter.

Y-What doesn’t matter?

X-What?

Y-Dude you really need to start paying more attention. Get a fucking memory?

X-Dude I really need to write a script for my avant-garde film class.

Y-Aand you just threw my comment about Brian and the girl in there verbatim?

X-Yup.

Y-email it to me?

X-Fuck

X-I’ll type it out latta.

Y-You hand wrote it?

X-(Laughs out Loud)

Y- What are you, retarded?

X-I really need to write that script for film. Fuck, did I just say that?

(In head; not out loud)

(Looks straight ahead and talks)

X-(What am I doing here? Do I ant to be here? Or am I here cause I’m supposed to be? Fuck, well It beats a retail job, and the military.  Well I don’t know … No it does, don’t be dumb. He wants me to and I quote “type that shit up and let me read it”)

Y-Yo Dickweed!

X-What?

Y- I don’t know, have you ever thought about what DARPA does? What are you looking at? You never think about all the fucked up shit our government does? Or on the other hand the awesomeness that is our military.

X-I don’t know, maybe.

X-Shit son it’s 2:43…AM, or is it PM? hmmm… analogue clocks suck! What day is it even? Does it even matter?

Y-What are you rambling about?

X-What?

Y-What did you say?

X-Me? nothing.

Y-Whatever.

X-“Are you dead or are you sleeping? God I sure hope you are dead!”

Y-“Let us not waste our time in idle discourse!(Pause Vehemently) Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. But at this place, at this time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!”

X-What the hell was that?

Hope you enjoyed your stay!

Good Day!

The End

Cinematography:

- only show one of the two people talking ever, don’t ever show Y only X.

-X is there sitting looking straight ahead as if Y is the person ie the camera. X looks straight ahead only at the camera, well X can look at the at the smoke from the cigaret or a book or something. as well as out the window.

-When X looks out the window or when X is talking in their head maybe montage?

-Do I want names? or just X and Y? I think just X and Y.

-Both voices are to be done by the same person? Should it be 2 different voices, like it should be?

-What is the meaning? Is it a conversation between two people,  or is it one person talking to themselves? Does it matter? Is the character crazy? Maybe? Maybe not?

-Film in black and white, or color?

-Black and White.

-shot interior, no establishing shots. lots of close ups.

-maybe have random shots of the wheels of a bicycle as the person rides down the street.

-maybe shoot the film in a common room? just film a person sitting on a couch, with the wall behind them as they have a conversation with Y. Don’t show Y only X.

-Can I make this film 10 min?

- How  long is it already?

-The story does not try to answer anything, nor does it try to persuade the viewer towards any view point.  In fact the whole point is really just an exploration into ones self, into society and life in general.  There are no profound statements being made. merely  that we all struggle to understand who we are, what we are, and how to survive as we are.

-How am I going to distinguish between inner monologue when X speaks?

-Do I  want to distinguish? Or do I want the audience to never know that their is an inner monologue?

-I could just do a standard voice overlay.

-Or I could have the character look to a different angel? I could put them somewhere else talking straight into the camera.

-(I could also have it as a subtitle at the bottom of the screen.)-YES subtitles at the bottom when the character is speaking, but of the inner dialogue only.