I know what you\u2019re thinking
\nI had to be slightly deranged
\nto watch a movie like that<\/p>\n
but hold on, take heart
\nit has a 6.4 rating on the IMDB
\nwhich is decent, as you might know
\nand it\u2019s not about blood and guts
\nor slicing and dicing
\nit\u2019s a psychological thriller
\nabout a guy whose eyes
\nhave the right amount of crazy
\nto properly represent derangement<\/p>\n
he\u2019s a mama\u2019s boy who goes crazy
\nwhen his mother dies<\/p>\n
and when he\u2019s about to be
\nmaking the beast with two backs
\nwith a more than willing woman <\/p>\n
his dead mother springs to life
\ncomes back from the dead
\nin his deranged head
\ntells him the tramp is sinful
\nand he must kill her
\nwhich mama\u2019s boy that he is
\nhe dutifully does<\/p>\n
fortunately, the movie spares you
\nthe gore, but you know what
\nhe\u2019s done for mama <\/p>\n
he has a stash of their corpses
\nin his house sitting at his kitchen table <\/p>\n
I see an actress in the movie
\nnamed Miki Moore
\nwho plays a waitress named Mary
\nshe\u2019s looking good back in 74
\nI find myself a bit taken with her
\ndespite the fact the her of her in 74
\nis no longer the her of her today
\nif she\u2019s even still living<\/p>\n
in one scene her car has flat tires
\nflattened by the deranged son of
\nthe dead mother to entrap her
\nwhen she finishes work<\/p>\n
he talks her into accompanying him
\nto his house where he says he has
\nspare tires and will put them on
\nher car for free<\/p>\n
she waits for him in his car outside
\nhis house while he pretends he\u2019s
\ngoing inside to get the tires<\/p>\n
but he doesn\u2019t come out
\neven when she beeps the horn on his car<\/p>\n
exasperated, she gets out of his car
\nand starts toward his house of horrors<\/p>\n
although I\u2019m fully cognizant that it\u2019s
\njust a movie<\/p>\n
inside my head I\u2019m saying no \u2026 no \u2026
\ndon\u2019t go in \u2026 don\u2019t go in \u2026.<\/p>\n
as if I could telepathically save her from
\nher predestined, godawful fate<\/p>\n
I\u2019m that caught up in it, and I don\u2019t want
\nto see Mary suffer such an
\nawful end to her life<\/p>\n
but, alas, neither I nor God
\nand all his angels and saints
\ncan save her at that point
\nMary doesn\u2019t have a prayer<\/p>\n
even with Revered Green in the
\nWalking in Memphis song
\nwho usually can help
\n\u201cwhen you haven\u2019t got a prayer\u201d <\/p>\n
Mary is a doomed woman
\nand my imagined telepathic thoughts
\ncannot save her<\/p>\n
from the ravages that await her in that hell house
\nso I try to remotely view and rewrite the script<\/p>\n
to save my beloved Mary
\nbut even that imaginary power doesn\u2019t work<\/p>\n
and she succumbs to the derangement of the
\nderanged principle in Deranged 1974<\/p>\n
and Mary is just another corpse
\nthank God it\u2019s all just a movie.<\/p>\n
Bob Boyd <\/p>\n
P.S. I showed this poem to a friend,
\nand she thought I was that caught up
\nin the movie. She didn\u2019t realize
\nI was kidding around and exaggerating
\nfor the sake of some fun with the poem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I know what you\u2019re thinking I had to be slightly deranged to watch a movie like that but hold on, take heart it has a 6.4 rating on the IMDB which is decent, as you might know and it\u2019s not about blood and guts or slicing and dicing it\u2019s a psychological thriller about a guy… Continue reading