Shell on Shells

sitting at his oak desk

clacking a pen cap

he auditions a new thought

his players are

sunk costs, the upstart,

and the unexamined

the -daddy why don't yous-

crumple into a patina

on his demeanors 

that can't be washed,

for its value is so grand,

that no one buys it.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and that new thought gets the part...but at too high a price to get into the movie?
well, maybe...
like the brevity, the short lines...the abstract quality..yet I like the metaphor used, the players---like the old players in Shakespeare...sometimes our words are the greatest actors.

jacob

[Nadia Gerassimenko]

because mainstream will not buy novel ideas, radical movements as it isn't something they're used to and it deprives them of their comfort zone and that is quite uncomfortable. but it is sad, so many wonderful ideas rejected because of limited thinking and silly comfort zones. how can we advance society if not for radical changes? this also made me think of pharmaceutical companies only accepting drugs that make big bucks. but who cares that people hallucinate or become crippled or even die? haha, i went ahead of myself! well wonderful works instigate thoughtful pondering.