Doppelgängers

[PrinceMyshkin]

There’s a guy gets right up my nose,
because I practically invite him there,
which does neither him nor me
nor the planet any good, but then,
like any deep love or hate-affair
(and is there any difference, sometimes,
between them?) it isn’t really
meant to do anyone any good,
least of all the two obsessively involved in it.

In the Soviet Union once,
driving somewhere with Konchalevski-Mikhalkov,
we got to discussing contemporary film directors.
I didn’t much like Goddard, I confessed.
“Me too!” Andrei exclaimed excitedly.
“I khate him! But I must khave enemies
in order to live!”



Jerry Newman © 20Dec07

[Virgil]

I think this is a very good little poem Prince. I like the tone and matter-of-fact diction.

[PrinceMyshkin]

[QUOTE=PrinceMyshkin;498523]

“I khate him!!”


"khate" and "khave" are attempts to replicate the way Russians pronounce an initial "h"

[AuntShecky]

Good.
The opening line is "boffo"! Is it an established idiom in the Great White North or is it an extension of the catchphrase we oafish Americains use: "Get outa my face!"
I don't know about Goddard; he does (did) push communism in our faces, didn't he? But I don't fault his films for being edgy. And I liked the surrealism in "Weekend" -- the traffic jam from Hell.
Your piece really "rocks" in every sense of the word.
auntie

[PrinceMyshkin]

Good.
The opening line is "boffo"! Is it an established idiom in the Great White North or is it an extension of the catchphrase we oafish Americains use: "Get outa my face!"

Good heavens! I'd be proud to think that we Canadians had original idioms other than anti-Americanisms! I'd always assumed that getting up someone's nose was in use on either side of the 49th parallel.

[/QUOTE]I don't know about Goddard; he does (did) push communism in our faces, didn't he? But I don't fault his films for being edgy. And I liked the surrealism in "Weekend" -- the traffic jam from Hell.
Your piece really "rocks" in every sense of the word.
auntie[/QUOTE]

Many thanks. There's an interesting history behind it, which I will PM you.

[firefangled]

Witty. You have a way with these politicoems.

Not that this is politics and not that there is anything wrong with that (in my best Seinfeld)

[PrinceMyshkin]

Witty. You have a way with these politicoems.

Not that this is politics and not that there is anything wrong with that (in my best Seinfeld)

Dude! (Or might I say Excellent Dude) - I would take your WORST Seinfeld over the actual Seinfeld, a show I much enjoyed in maybe its first year but after that became a quiver of kvetches, i.e.:

The interminably cute kvetch;
The overweight kvetch;
The female kvetch, and
Kramer...

[Sweets America]

As I told you, I like it even though that is not my favorite of yours. No one has raised this point, but I think the title is wonderful, as it makes the ennemies become one, like a mirror of each other.

[firefangled]

Dude! (Or might I say Excellent Dude) - I would take your WORST Seinfeld over the actual Seinfeld, a show I much enjoyed in maybe its first year but after that became a quiver of kvetches, i.e.:

The interminably cute kvetch;
The overweight kvetch;
The female kvetch, and
Kramer...

Oh, but I am such a fan of kvetch, you wouldn't believe!

Granted it was no George Burns and Gracie Allen (for whom I named my first German Shepherd after the Rang-Tang-Tang for short skit).

[PrinceMyshkin]

Oh, but I am such a fan of kvetch, you wouldn't believe!

In which case you might be sympathetic to the dyslexic rabbi who went around all day exclaiming: "Yo! Yo!"

Or, not exactly a propos:


The long-revered Rabbi was dying and all his many disciples lined up fr a last word with him or to receive his blessing. At the end of the line the youngest of these disciples began to be afraid that he might not get his turn before the Rabbie died.

“Please,” he said to the disciple in front of him, “pass this message up to the Rabbi. As kim, ‘What is life?’”

The question went all the way up the line to the Rabbi and in a little while, the answer came back:

“The Rebbe says that life is a river!”

“‘Life is a river!’” the disciple exclaimed. “Ask him please what he means by that.”

Once again the question went all the way up the line to the Rabbi and in a little while, the answer came back:

“The rebbe says, ‘Life is not a river?”

[SleepyWitch]

hehe, I like it :) I wonder who it is about ;) :D


which does neither him nor me
nor the planet any good
these are my fave lines

[PrinceMyshkin]

hehe, I like it :) I wonder who it is about ;) :D


It is about ME, of course... but I cannot help wondering if some other consonant might better replace the _ in "Sleepy_itch"?