Happiness: A Poem
The movies that really hit the spot have ironic, downbeat, equivocal endings. Happiness’s grand illusion is always just out of reach: Garance dwindles into the crowd; Rick turns from the Lisbon plane; Kane discards his tarnished star; Moseby adrift on Point of View. Happiness seems a habit some gain early, some never. (Yet we cling… The post Happiness: A Poem appeared first on VoegelinView.

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The movies that really
hit the spot have ironic,
downbeat, equivocal endings.
Happiness’s grand illusion
is always just out of reach:
Garance dwindles into the crowd;
Rick turns from the Lisbon plane;
Kane discards his tarnished star;
Moseby adrift on Point of View.
Happiness seems a habit
some gain early, some never.
(Yet we cling to the thing with wings.)
A matter of collision:
the right place, right time. Or not.
It’s no potato you can grow.

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