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film history as train wreck.(Poem)

 
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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