Hello again to my little poetry exercise I started about a month ago. The schedule cleared up enough, and I had the opportunity to wind down at work with a new blackout poem.
So, let’s get into this new “horror-core” poem I hacked together from an old horror movie review, shall we?
“Rerun”
a murder is committed on an average of every five minutes
the only difference
is the names of the victims have changed
a young man who went on a killing spree
chopped, hacked, sliced and diced
the story is still the same
A respectable 18
not the all time high
but just enough to continue the bloody tradition
it drew attendion
just one attack after another
a string of murders
to wipe out the nightmares
macabre; contrived
you know some people have a weird idea of what’s entertainment
Notes on “Rerun”
Is this just edgy garbage? I can see how some people might see that. Had been doing this in high school, I might have been put on some kind of list or sent to speak with several adults who might have been concerned about me.
I can state here for the record, I am fine. I feel pretty happy right now, and this is just me playing with the words and themes I find in the text I carve new poems from. Like the previous piece, “Massacre,” I am pulling from this great collection of vintage horror reviews and one-sheets from Archive.org.
Rich Bentley’s review of Friday the 13th: Part VI is very dismissive, calling the film more of the same. I get it, and it pretty quickly established a theme I built on by focusing on the repetition of violence in the criticism.
The thing I found funniest, though, is that, for as much as Bentley is dismissive of the film, he does get up on a video-nasty high-horse about the threat to children within a sequence of the film. Apparently, it is more of the same, except when it does something different, but it shouldn’t do something different, either.
Sometimes it feels like horror just can’t win. But hey, what have you heard of before? Friday the 13th: Part VI, or Rich Bentley?
That’s what I thought.
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