are you being film student lazy
trying to rip off martin scorcese?
yeah, i saw the goodfellas riff
not enough pizza, too much spliff?
you need to get out and read the world
start dancing through head high grasses
walking by the cool green river
learning about the kingfisher shimmer
leaves twist and fall through autumn and winter
to rot into the ground and feed the spring
to see the truth in nature's the thing
be taught by wordsworth and blake
because right now you are a fake

there are film schools in tide pools of thought
trapped like dust motes in light rays caught
that have forgotten how to think original
seduced by the idiot slogans on a dirigible
and hey, i know that rhyme was forced
but like you i feel that blame is outsourced
you take no credit for your own style of edit
and i will blame the blown fuse of a cantankerous muse
who shifts through the shimmering material of blues
often she's prone to alcohol abuse
and half the time it's through a hard won truce
that i get a line or two down on the paper
she starts to ramble, i'm out, so i tape her

i am arguing with you to puncture the tired film
that skinned over coffee like a cataract blindness
your visions should be fired in a red hot kiln
not nurtured by some sycophantic kindness
and so i come to deliver the coup de grace
to ram it down your throat -- to kick you up the arse
think for once or a dunce you'll be
and excuses are worth shit to me
i'll go after each weakness like a praying mantis
and sink your badly constructed retard atlantis

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