“Strange Love” (poem)

kubrickStrange Love
(for Stanley Kubrick)

Stanley Kubrick’s eyes belie dispassion:
remoteness was his only defence.
Look how frankly he regards you,
the way you shrivel from that gaze.

 

© Cliff Burns (All Rights Reserved)

About Cliff Burns

I'm a literary writer, specializing in slipstream/ alternative/surreal/science fiction. My influences include Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, David Cronenberg, Rene Magritte, any artist who defies convention and busts open genres, attacking the status quo.
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