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8 May
With them...
A 150-word story for Mark Brown
[and all that he and so many do for mental-health difficulty]
Whatever it was that they did have, what was almost more important – with them, for their story – had been 'non-events'. Then, spirits of impossibility and inopportunity had been accorded oversight :
Their not kissing (when, hurriedly, they first might have kissed)... before that (through fright – at what might be ?), choosing not to be there at all (when first they could have met)... even before that, The Fates intervening (to prevent what should have been a less-knowing meeting – just as 'awkward' for being so ?)...
Painting oneself into a corner ? Hardly a lyrical, poetic image (redolent more of Stan and Ollie ?) of them and theirs – yet is it one that speaks of, and into, the implausibility, the notion of the unimaginable, made solid by words, by the voice ?
Made too fleshly solid (for their co-produced impracticability, unreality ?) for the first real event, though booked, to evade the intractability of being a last non-event.
© Belston Night Works 2015
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
