Thursday, January 23, 2025

edited

I still haven't put
TOGETHER 
what
I was trying to say 
ABOUT 
FILM

BUT 
I want to tell you
ABOUT 
my eleven year old* 
*possibly twelve, I'm not sure
OSCARS theory

I don't remember 
the films
& the people SPECIFICALLY involved 

BUT 
I became 
CONVINCED that 
JUDGES

were CONSIDERING THINGS people did in previous years that they MAYBE deserved to WIN for that OTHER TIME 

SO
TO ME
THIS INVALIDATED
the ENTIRE thing

if it wasn't 
ABOUT 
WHO
DID
BEST

what were we EVEN DOING here

I think 
I'm not sure 
HOW 
I feel about it 
NOW 

I THINK 
I currently believe 
that although I can't say I was 
WRONG exactly 
I THINK 

it's easier to believe in an
OBJECTIVE 
WINNER 
when you're LOOKing
from ONE perspective 


my ONE TAKE at the time--
it's ALL POLITICS 

I was QUITE dramatic about it

I considered it a disillusionment 
THAT'S HOW I 
THOUGHT 
of them*
*I was making a list

WARNING--
[I'm sorry, I think this is really funny now, but it might not sound that way]

LATER 
I ADDED 

--HEY, I THOUGHT 
you were SUPPOSED to 
be able to TRUST 
PARENTAL 
ADVICE--

BUT 
one hundred percent 
if I JUST 
DID what I 
THOUGHT 
DIDN'T 
ASK

BETTER 

this was ALL an adolescent 
THING-- 

the LIST of 
DISILLUSIONMENT