Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

[JTParreira]

Angelic step in air
falls on the carpet
I was very good at it
cause problems to the sensitive Hollywood
I do it exceptionally well
was stupid say
acting is not work to hard-boiled male
so after much knock out
my memory have a long space.


by J T Parreira

[jon1jt]

Fantastic poem about an actor who, as Sean Penn said at the Awards, "rises again, my friend."

I waited the other night to see if Mickey would pull off Best Actor, but the Academy went with MILK and that annoyed me because it's not a great film, the same as many others like Tom Hank's The Streets Of Philadelphia touching on a still-touchy social issue.

The Wrestler speaks to real life and real people and inspires on all levels. But Hollywood was never daring as it routinely goes for stereotypical-promoting films that usually require that they be filmed overseas---eg Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire---that resonate with bleak, ill-informed American audiences.

As far as your poem, you capture Hollywood's exile of Rourke brilliantly. "Sensitive Hollywood" sums up what he was up against those days. And yet your poem provides a tempering solemn acceptance that could have come straight from recent interviews with Mickey Rourke.


I do it exceptionally well
was stupid say
acting is not work to hard-boiled male


These are my favorite:

so after much knock out
my memory have a long space.


Excellent excellent excellent, JTParreira