Author, Drama Poem by gershon hepner

I’ll be author, you’ll be drama,
both of us will be directors,
thinking less about the grammar,
or production and prospectus,
than of action we’ll be joining
having scrutinized the script,
and we move to tenderloining,
after meaning has been stripped.

At the end of “Roman de Gare, ” a movie by Claude Lelouch in which the Dominique Pinon plays the role of Paul, a nègre, which is French for ghost writer, who has a relationship with Audrey Dana, Huguette, a prostitute who claims to be a hairdresser who did Princess Di’s hair the day before she was killed. For seven years Paul hasbeen ghostwriting for Fanny Ardant, who plays the part of Judith Ralitzer, a celebrated novelist, who seems to murder hi on her yacht when he threatens to publish her next novel in his own name. One of the last lines of the movie, from “La Condition Humaine, ” is, if I remember it correctly: “”I’ll be author, you’ll be drama, ” the last line of Malraux’s “La Condition Humaine”.



6/2/08