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Deadpool and Wolverine ******

I am not much for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, even though I camped outside Beaumont Pharmacy every Thursday until I owned the first 100 issues of the Fantastic Four, X-Men, Avengers and so on... 60 years ago. (All destroyed in a basement flood while I was away at MIT). I've seen a few MCU movies, but I'm far from a completist. And so it is that I gingerly bestow six stars.

I have tried to learn over the years not to review a film's budget, but I have rarely had occasion to try to avoid reviewing a film's box office. If you're alive and alert you know the basket of records this film has already broken.

I did see and enjoy the previous Deadpool movie. This one is bigger, louder and more impressive. If, like me, you're not great on the whole pantheon, sit next to an MCU expert, who can help you understand the more obscure inside references and the more obscure cameos. Of course, you don't need to know much to laugh at a Deadpool line, aimed at a fellow superhero, whom he refers to as "Mr. PG-13," in comparison to Deadpool's R rating.

In short: Run don’t walk to see Deadpool and Wolverine. Hysterically funny, unbelievably foul-mouthed, ultra violent, exploding heads. A laugh riot. And a 100 Deadpools from throughout the multiverse.


New: Pay Attention

In a departure from my usual run of love songs, I wrote what I thought was a personal song about something other than love. Vicki informs me it is a poem, not a song. I include the chorus once, rather than repeating it between verses first verse one stanza, other verses two stanzas).

When I was young
They used to say
You will miss all this someday
Their words back then
Beyond my ken.
Now I wish today was then

CHORUS
Pay attention every day
Listen close to what they say
When it’s in your rearview mirror
You’re gonna wish that it was nearer

I didn’t get what they meant.
I knew theirs was good intent.
Thought I might miss things I could touch.
I didn’t think I’d miss them much

I was right, they were too.
What would I miss? I had no clue.
Unbridled joy, fresh sensation
I never paid too much attention

Awake I lie as boredom numbs.
Sleep no longer quickly comes.
Once sleep of the dead, as some folks said,
Swept o’er me, came to my bed

Today I start to look alive
Every day at half past five
The arms of Morpheus let me go
Sleeping in? I miss it so

It isn’t people places pets
Whose loss leaves me with deep regrets
I surely miss them all and yet
I know what I would like to get
A good night’s sleep


New: Keep Your Hands Off

After seeing one too many terrible divorces on TV, in the movies (God save me from being married to a screenwriter), and among my friends, this came to me. I thought it might be a song too, but I was told it isn’t.

CHORUS:
 You’ll have to pry our kids from my cold dead hands.
You say you want to fight? Come on, let’s dance

You represent yourself, got a fool for a client.
Compared to you, my lawyer is a giant.

Everything you said in your papers was a lie.
I’m gonna fight you till the day I die.

I’m gonna take the kids and move away.
You just better not get in my way

I never asked for this. It was you that did.
Keep being a creep And I’ll flip my Lid

You don’t want the kids I can plainly see.
You’re just doing this as a way to hurt me

You think I’ll roll over? Just wait and see.
I’m gonna kick you in the ass like you kicked me

When all of this is said and done.
Turns out you’re not the only one
Who can fight dirty just wait and see
I’m gonna hurt you like you hurt me

The kids and I will own not rent
You’ll be on the street living in a tent.
Skip the alimony! what the hell?
You’re gonna be lonely in that cell


Love Poems

I have written a dozen love songs for Vicki. Holding My Heart was the first to become a song.

It was forty years ago you see.
When I found out amazingly
Her I’d picked out for my mate
Put my heart on a silver plate.
Cared for mine just like her own,
Never abused, just held on loan,
Never tried to give it back,
Never caused a break or crack.

Three Little Words eventually became Words of Love.

I love you.
Three words in English,
Two words in Spanish and Italian.
Why do I need to say them?

I profess, obsess and confess,
To move those words,
From inside me to inside you.

Do I impose?
Perhaps, I suppose.


Free Verse Love Poems

Some of my poems are free verse: Love is an Amazement (inspired by the phrase in a Garrison Keillor essay)

I have been loved deeply and completely
A few times in my life.
The experience was grand.
But as a serial monogamist,
I loved and was loved one at a time.

If You Could Read My Mind (inspired by the Gordon Lightfoot song)

I had already seen your [mind],
the night we met.
Peeping tom,
I glanced in your eyes,
and saw,
Not a void,
But a beautiful view.

First Kiss (inspired by something a friend said about her first kiss)

This was the first time
a kiss moved me,
a kiss made my toes tingle,
a kiss made the room swirl.