An Elegy in Ten Peaks
A homage to David Lynch (1946—2025)
This may or may not make sense:
From Twin Peaks, take the Mulholland Drive turn-off to the Lost Highway into the Inland Empire to Fire Walk with Me. Donning Blue Velvet, the Eraserhead was Wild at Heart, telling The Straight Story of The Elephant Man in Dune1.
A poem in ten stanzas:
Confounding colours, intermittently alliterating
Blue Velvet, a blue box, a blue key
A Red Room, velvet curtains, red lampshade
Black Lodge, yellow flowers (decaying)
Dreaming with eyes wide open
Denouements in American diners
Grotesqueries with interlopers
Juxtapositions of saints and sinners
Non sequiturs, double entendres, Twin Peaks:
Some mysteries are not meant to be solved
Tranquillity sublime, a vision so divine
Segue into baroque opulance so devolved
Where the illusion is pure
And the dreams are dark
Subsurface nightmares
In a small town car park
Low lighting, dark night clubs
Sombre songs of times gone
The echoes and intuitions
Go on and on and on and on
The big fish, the bigger picture
Caught in the eye of the duck
Performances leaving the meaning
Unearthed: no such luck
Where the surreal is funny
And the funny surreal
Absurdity, struggling in ignorance
The angriest dog in the world
Too many interruptions
The artist’s life on the run
Too many obligations
More work could’ve been done
Intense, elegant failure
From which the only way is up
Sublime eternal love
Exists deep down within
Art as pointless as life
The answers lie within
Beauty a lie making so much sense
It becomes impossible to explain
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Author’s note: a quick poetic interlude while I keep working on copy-edits. I couldn’t quite figure out a caption for the last picture—‘David Lynch, genius’ being the closest—but I think it speaks for itself. A great picture of a great artist.
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41 words encapsulating all 10 movie titles shot by David Lynch (the titles alone take 25 words).
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