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film history as train wreck.(Poem)
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June 22, 2005
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film history as train wreck
1.
1895
the Lumiere Brother's moving picture
of a train arriving at La Ciotat station--
its engine hurtling toward the audience--
made women faint, men scream,
the crowd stampede for the exits.
2.
this may
or may not be true.
critics differ, historians have disagreed.
3.
the word cacophony comes to mind,
the words "burst in uninvited."
but I speak only
for myself
&, honestly, even my mother's mother wasn't there.
4.
unless she was so frightened after fleeing
from the basement of the Grand Cafe
she had amnesia
& wandered down ...
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