Marc Olmsted
Marc Olmsted, son of the film, television, and
radio actor Nelson Olmsted, holds a Master’s Degree in film and managed
to get Timothy Leary to play the head of the FBI in one of his movies.
Son of Kong Is Drowning
This is America and this is the Mutant visiting on
X-mas who loves his Father weary of life in the supernatural dawn, his
father of asthma hacking into the automobile, his father of old tan skin
hung melting from his old skull, goodbye American and father goodbye all
forms, goodbye SONG OF KIN SON OF KONG on the last movie hour, dawn
comes and one gathers for the nest party, the New Aeon, where things are
no longer recognizable, waking in my own room a stranger even to
myself...SON OF KONG is drowning I tell my father as he walks into the
room and the Skull Island that is America sinks into the Reaganomic
horror sea, Kong white monkeyhand holding aloft Robert Armstrong saving
his hide, Son of Kong is drowning I say and hold back tears, nothing has
changed since I was 5, or is it that all has changed so thoroughly even
the past is different...
My father waves from across the street at the bus
stop and I look up with my pal Richard and my father is waving goodbye
like a TV image and he is so beautiful standing there and our continents
drift apart, Father, Father o with yer eyes like dugs grooved by tears,
my father waving across the street, his face of remorse, his belly of
gravity and overeating, his white mustache of smoke, his white brows of
clouds of the imagination, his white vinyl belt of chic Hollywood
70-year-old goofiness on the corner of Van Nuys and Ventura with the
entire world in metal constant honkings, hurking, newsstands gasstands
dashworks, clever handlers, little malls of a thousand sights of vinyl,
ah sweet futurity ah cancer ah paranoia, ah vast open rainy end of all
there is to write...
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