#515: La Saveur des Larmes (c.1938 )

Sinatra offscreen. An Oscar-
winning song. Sammy Cahn
lyrics. Oops, there goes another
rubber tree plant even though
Anyone knows an ant can't
Move a rubber tree plant. Maybe
that's what the caterpillars are
singing as they start to demolish
the giant synecdoche that towers

over the river, over a house full of
lights which foreshadows the final
work of the painter, over a bridge 
which seemingly comes from & 
goes to nowhere. The caterpillars 
chew away. It is a painstaking task. 
It is a painful task. One thing dies 
for another to live. They weep; &
hate the bitter flavor of their tears.