Movie Script 19

MOVIE SCRIPT 19

Director: in this cinema on the life
of Xavier Villaurrutia
Is be done in the style of
"s'mbolo del barroco" and will be
Titled "Muero ergo sum." We will not use
any narrative
Or linear organization.

The only words spoken is in the beginning
when Villaurrutia
Quotes himself,
"Mientras por competir con tu cabello."


An interruption: The assistant director
protests that Villaurrutia
Did not say that,
it was said by the poet G'ngora.

The director immediately fired
the assistant director, telling him
That he did not understand the aesthetic
philosophy upon which
This cinema was based.


The movie:

In front of an inn that has only the floor
constructed, an albino
Fox plays chess with the skeleton of a fox.

The wind knocks over a blank canvas on an easel.

A blonde wig hung on a clothes line
Falls on the head of a barking black dog.

The night is a swinging door, and the door
Never stops swinging.

A crayon crumbles around some chives
Sprouting out of a crack in the sidewalk.

An unfinished Galatea is begging the sculptor
To carve her a tongue.

The echo of a shadow is having a spasm
Inside a locked trunk.

Sur magazine publishes Nostalgia de la muerte.

The End

Duane Locke

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