What duplicity we play with ourselves
our entertainment is full of murders and rapes
we go and we’re scared or thrilled
but, when we leave we can cut it loose
because it was just fiction.
But, ask how many would go
if it were a documentary
made for the strict purpose of telling us that
‘This exists,
this is real, …
see it, believe it with your heart.’
Not many I suspect
once the pandering
to our voyeurism
and sexual stereotyping
was stripped away
We won’t come to grips with this sickness of ours
and we won’t come closer to considering it
than giving a shudder reading about it in print
when its real
and going to see it as entertainment
when its not.
gallagher
8 September 84
after seeing ‘tightrope’
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
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