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FILM ASCENSION

 

“Taxi Driver”

With its 20 great scenes

Compelling, irreducible

Every frame necessary

The taxi itself

Separate, confident.

Has the right to pick up people

Interact, they are paying him.

Perhaps he thinks he is the protagonist

And not the yellow Checker

And it’s license of implied propriety

Which Travis flaunts and violates –

Fundamentally a cynic

Full of jealous hate.

Then to the campaign office –

The blond so naive

As to be smart and stupid

At the same time.

To his “apartment” cell

Where the invidious entity lurks

Awaiting his ascension.

The dreamer meets the gun Merchant –

All the weapons demonstrated.

The vixen, a Yale co-ed. no less,

Flirts as a vocation.

Her eyes say 140 I.Q.

Her body is for sale

And he wants to own something or someone

Before he self-explodes in agony.

The brother, the blood splatters the pimp

In the worst way and then the bloody corpse

Gazing up at God –

Until the victims file out of the theatre to their lyft                 

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