You step out of Dr. Caligari's cabinet
and into the transcendentalism of Silicon Valley . . .
Why the copy of Stuart Brand's Access To Tools? . . .
Beef cattle punctuate the landscape . . .
Items bought online perfunctorily . . .
The stars and stripes . . .
Inbred across workbenches . . .
All recorded on acetate . . . now The Cloud . . .
You remember the midnight ride of Paul Revere . . .
The mental gymnastics of Steve Wozniak . . . the two Steves . . .
Did you think it would all crumble? . . .
Along with Shelley's Ozymandias? . . .
Two roads still diverge in a yellow wood
despite Joyce Carol Oates . . .
Yes, go on . . .
Christmas morning . . . and You Are There . . .
With Walter Cronkite? . . .
He too was known to occasionally come undone . . . off camera . . .
Not unlike dear Mister Rogers . . .
It's a beautiful day . . . in the neighborhood . . .
Indeed . . .
Backstage Jim Henson spirited away by Christian Scientists . . .
Is That All There Is? . . .
Eartha Kitt? . . .
No, Peggy Lee . . . Eartha Kitt is "All I Want Is All There Is and Then Some" . . .
Oh . . . Wait, I've got only one bar here . . .
Advance the tape, please . . .
Ah ha, enter stage left, Beckett's wearish old man, Krapp . . .
Ha ha ha! . . . Excremental tweets! . . .
I lay down across her . . . We lay there without moving . . .
But under us all moved, and moved us . . .
Claire's Knee, Knife in the Water, L'Avventura . . .
Get back on track . . . you still owe me a paper on Giacomo Leopardi . . .
I'll take the Incomplete . . .
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| The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) |