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DEAN M. DRINKEL

 

I am a short story writer, and was runner up for the 2001 Sir Peter Ustinov Screenwriting Award for my screenplay Ghosts.  My short film The Imp Of The Perverse is to be shown at the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival. In September I will be directing Clive Barker's play Frankenstein in Love at the Barons Court Theatre, London. Twisted Souls, my recent poetry collection, will be published in the States in May.

 

 

 

from POPULAR CULTURE

 

MARTHA STEWART

Domestic Goddess

 

Destroyed by fire, but remade from

Grass and flesh.  The creature dove

Into the sea.  Dreamed of a world

Where no flames existed.

 

Walls of rock fell away when she

Found them.  The molecules that

Breathed the very fabric and foundation

Of the world.  Sound with her, in the

Search for Utopia.

 

Her scream.  Muffled perhaps by the

Waves from the ocean, was still piercing

Nonetheless.  A call to arms for her

People.

 

The waters rose, then, with love,

Took back from the world

What was hers.



LIZA MINNELLI

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Tastes like fear.  Intention of the mind

Complete shut down of the brain.

With each passing moment, the

Process for thinking, melts away.

 

Models for lifeless beings.

Tears of glass and more besides.

Armies with their hearts ripped out

Their golden headed leader: gone to the crows.

 

Sandworms and Minah birds.

The continual yapping of wounded dogs.

Shrieks of metal

Bodies covered in paper cuts.

 

No more blood, just water.

 

 

PARIS HILTON

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I don’t know that sound anymore.

My hearing is dead.  Burnt by the

Wailing of the sirens.  The shock

Of the rockets and the missiles.

 

Nothing but the beach is here now.

The sand probably but not sand nowadays.

Not yellow at least, more of a deathly

Grey.  Silicone?  No way. Ash!

 

Rivers of blood and land of bones.

Hovels made from bodies, piled up

Against each other.  Mobile and

Plenty of them, should they fall

By the next wave.

 

We cry ourselves to sleep.

This is the world we created.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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