Howie Good

My Life as a Movie

There would be slow-motion explosions,

elaborately choreographed car chases,

a soft-hipped woman with come hither eyes,

there would be robots versus kung fu,


all while a piano burns on a deserted beach

and Death, dressed as usual in a hooded robe

and using the one-finger technique, ruthlessly plinks

the same black key over and over and over.

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