Uncut Ending

Saint Paul, 10 October 2006

In Hollywood movies

when conventional lives

get progressively worse

the unvarnished life

gets correspondingly better

You and I are as triumphant

as Thelma & Louise

In lives replete with torture

and term life insurance

the slow motion launch

to the arid bluffs of freedom

would be hasty decapitation

by a guardrail guillotine