THE WICKED WHICH OF BEGETS*
Which is more naïve (naïver?) —
to believe poetry that rings true
….or….
to be a true believer?
Which takes more courageous thinking —
to whistle in the dark of faith
….or….
to face reality without blinking?
Which lays more cards on the table —
the persuasion of the power of babble
….or….
the allegory of The Tower of Babel?
Which is the bigger cancer —
the answer that brooks no questions
….or….
the questions that beget no answer?
*with apologies to The Wicked Witch of the West (played by the late Margaret Hamilton in THE WIZARD OF OZ). In addition to her film career, it seems that Hamilton was also (according to Wikipedia) a Sunday School teacher in the 1950s, which carries my apologies beyond my title-play-on-words to the poem itself. May her Maker be as real as the great and powerful Wizard was a humbug, and more wonderful than the “whiz of a wiz” who Dorothy and her friends were told they’d see at the end of the yellow brick road:
Don Frankel, 
The Observation Post 
arekhill1 9:51 am on April 20, 2016 Permalink |
I Have always believed the Wicked Witch of the West to be deeply misunderstood. Her sister was murdered and that sibling’s shoes were stolen while colorfully dressed little people danced on her grave, yet we attribute the Green One’s desire for vengeance solely to wickedness? Another example of history being written by the winners. What a world, what a world.
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mistermuse 10:36 am on April 20, 2016 Permalink |
Every plot needs a bad guy (or gal), or there would be no story. Where would religion be without a Devil to blame for everything that has gone wrong with creation? No Wicked Witch, no wonderful Wizard of Oz; no Devil, no good God; no good God, no religion.
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Cynthia Jobin 11:46 am on April 20, 2016 Permalink |
It’s a treat to encounter more unusual rhymes: naïver/believer and cancer/answer…because, because, because, because beCAUSE!
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mistermuse 3:45 pm on April 20, 2016 Permalink |
Thank God (or others equally unknown) for my flair for rhyming light verse, otherwise I’d be the poet-equivalent of a bad wizard (in the manner of the Wizard of Oz’s response when Dorothy called him a very bad man: “Oh, no, my dear. I’m not a very bad man. I’m just a very bad wizard.”)
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Don Frankel 7:57 am on April 22, 2016 Permalink |
You know I’m watching this clip and like everyone else I’ve seen it countless times but I just realized something. That dog there Toto, never gets enough credit. I mean she hits her mark all the time. She dances along with everyone else and unlike the rest of the characters she doesn’t need anything. She’s not complaining and she never pees on anyone’s leg either. She looks well almost Presidential.
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mistermuse 9:12 am on April 22, 2016 Permalink |
Excellent point, Don….and to think Toto did all that and only got $125 a week in dog food, which probably wasn’t much more than chicken feed compared to Lassie’s pay. I think Toto definitely deserves to be rated higher than 13th on the following list of film dogs:
http://boingydog.com/the-25-most-famous-dogs-in-tv-and-movie-history/
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