Miriam Hopkins, Jack La Rue, & James Eagles in The Story of Temple Drake (1933, dir. Stephen Roberts), adapted from Faulkner’s scandalous 1931 novel, Sanctuary
“Motionless, facing one another like the first position of a dance, they stood in a mounting terrific muscular hiatus.”
-William Faulkner, Sanctuary
wants to get out
but I’m too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody’s asleep.
I say, I know that you’re there,
so don’t be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he’s singing a little
in there, I haven’t quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it’s nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don’t
weep, do
you?
—
Charles Buskowski, from “Bluebird”
From The Last Night of the Earth Poems
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