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	Screenwriter's Blues

By Wesley Felter, wesf@mail.utexas.edu.

It's April 1st, and since I haven't posted anything wacky yet...

and the radio is on
and the radioman is speaking
and the radioman says
women were a curse
so men built Paramount
studios
and men built Columbia
studios
and men built
Los Angeles

it is 5 am
and you are listening
to Los Angeles

...

I am going to
Los Angeles
to see my own
name on a
screen, five feet
long and luminous
as the radioman says
it is 5 am
and the sun has charred
the other side of
the world and come
back to us
and painted the smoke
over our heads
an imperial violet
it is 5 am
and you are listening
to Los Angeles.

The lyrics are from a song called Screenwriter' s Blues by Soul Coughing. Dreams, nightmares, head trips, etc. See you at SIGGRAPH 97!