Something Different…


On “The Lady Vanishes”

Poem on the 1938 film “The Lady Vanishes,” directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

In a quaint train car
Wheels
p a
s r
k on the tracks

Dinner was served
The forks
and knives
and their

clacks

No-one ever stopped to wonder
“Who left us,
rendered us asunder?”

See, no-one remembered her
Such a
blunder

Searching was the only way
But, of course,
it begun in vain.

A music man begun to say:
“The people here,
they lie.
They do it for the gain”

At once they began to comprise
A plan to win this psychological scheme

But instead they found a different prize
and tried with might to dismiss it as a dream.

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