Tuesday, January 28, 2014

at the front 
there was
a battle raging

an abandoned strip mall
was in no man's land
and was taking a pounding

Dr. Buckley Fuller had all the work he could handle
he was working 
eighteen hour days patching bodies back together
finally he snapped
and they found him writing a
600 page letter
analyzing the various themes and iconic
symbology
found in the 1939 John Ford movie "Stagecoach"

The section on the banker who was on the run with the payroll
and his diatribe against governmental
intrusion and regulation was paralleled in at least two hundred
pages with references to modern
events as well as historical banking fiascos such as the S&L scandal, the mortgage and bond bubble
and the corporate eminent domain investiture.

The movie's recurring themes of class and stratification were woven into a
hundred and seven page poem called "Aces & Eights; Luke Plummer's Last Hand"
The vision of an early American sense of justice and equality was a theme throughout the letter culminating in the release by the sheriff and stagecoach driver of the Ringo Kid and his bride to be, Dallas, on a buggy to his ranch "down in Mexico".

The last hundred pages of the letter however were just the words "All work and dead bodies make Buck Fuller a round headed mis-hap" over and over.