A Tale of Lost Time [Skazka o poteryannom vremeni ] (1964) The Walt Disney of Soviet Cinema, Aleksandr Ptushko directed Evgeny Schwartz’s fable about elderly who steal children’s youth. The set designs and special effects are magical, especially the sorcerers’ coven hidden inside a tree. Sergey Martinson, a “master of pantomime, buffoonery, and grotesque,” takes impish delight as a geriatric with a third-grade boy trapped inside him. The concluding chase sequence is hilariously inventive. Of course there is a moral to this tomfoolery: Write on the door, ”Work before pleasure.” And yet, the bittersweet truth about youth and old age happens mid-way though the film: “A person who’s losing time doesn’t notice how he’s getting old.”
Never trust a cross-eyed chameleon
Conserve water in the baobab tree
Whales roam the earth, eating watermelons
Evacuate the Alamo at dawn
Brought to you by the Cherokee Nation
Never trust a cross-eyed chameleon
The Stock Market goes up and then goes down
Coconut crabs would hoard vegetation
White whales stalk earth for the watermelons
The older we grow, the more skeleton
Erodes beneath the condominium
Never trust a cross-eyed chameleon
As cannibal lizards evolve nations
Butterfly innocents become the victims
While whales crunch earth into watermelons
Fossils reveal scars from lost horizons
Strange creatures caught in evaporation
Never trust a cross-eyed chameleon
The British abandoned Hong Kong freedom
State religion burns like a waffle iron
Never trust a cross-eyed chameleon
Whales beach earth beneath split watermelons
[Disposable Poem August 25, 2021]
Dr. Mike
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