Soundtrack

The edit plus strings
Perform a sleight of hand
Upon your mind.
You think you've seen
Nude Janet Leigh
Slashed a dozen times;
Slow it down and look again
It's Hitch deceiving us once more.
Scorsese pulls a different trick in
'Raging Bull'; Mascagni
Finds beauty in violence,
La Motta smacks seven shades of
slow –mo black and white
from his opponent ,
and we watch wrapped
at the fling and flail of blood.

In the dark of cinemas
I try to find a soundtrack of my own.
Play the tapes again
with the sound turned down.
I leave; blinking in the light,
Ennio Morricone strikes up.
Nothing is as it seems,
and the horror is hypnotic.

N.Elder 2011.