The World According To Frank

       The world is an interesting place, and sometimes the way I view it even more so. I have an awkward way of taking something, and pulling it to an absurdity, and then bundling it back together. It is the thing from which comedy is born, this ability to look at the absurd. An absurdity is a thing that is extremely unreasonable, so as to be foolish or not taken seriously, or the state of being so. This is comedy, and this is a main concept of being Frank. This absurdity is all around us, and can be yours to laugh at if you choose to look hard enough. It really is not that hard to find. Here, I'll give you a freebie. Just watch Bugs Bunny slam Yosemite Sam's face into a frying pan. The way his face comes out in the shape of the pan!? Yeah.. absurdity at work! I would say this is an outlook born of Love, an ability to laugh at the world that I see. Upon hearing this, people tend to look at me and say... Frank, you are out there.






       To which I look them right back, in the eye, and I say,


"Well, I can't wait for you to be here. It's a hell of a view!"

"Love wins. Love always wins." - Morrie Schwartz

Love always wins. It goes unnoticed by some through the day, but Love always wins somewhere. It just won someplace right now. In life. In realities real and created. In fiction. In non-fiction. In science fiction. Morrie put a simple tag on this waging war called "a tension of opposites." Morrie goes on to describe it as a "pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle."

I believe Morrie is telling us all that no matter where you are on the rubber band, when you are on the side of love, you will prevail.

Like when Princess Leia says, "I love you." to Han Solo before he is frozen in carbonite, and loses him to the bounty hunter. LOVE reunites the Princess and Solo when she rescues him from Jabba the Hutt. Love wins.

In Braveheart, a couple is married out of a life long love that started with the innocence of youth. After the untimely death of his love, William Wallace channels that love to conquer a country for his people, so that those countrymen may love freely. Through that freedom of a nation, and his death, William Wallace is able to be reunited with his love, and in eternity, enjoy marital bliss. Love wins.

In the movie, The Notebook, when a man moves into the home where his wife is suffering from Alzheimer, so he can read the stories of her notebook, so she can remember him. This is love conquering Alzheimer's. Love wins

In Love Actually, when a father helps his son win the affections of a girl, because the father is reliving what it was like to fall in love with the wife and mother they both have just lost, love has been transcended and reborn, even through death. Love wins. 

Right now, at this very moment, a girl is giving a boy their first kiss, and a new love is born.

Right now, at this very moment, an old woman is giving a dying man a kiss goodbye, and their love is just as strong as the day it was born.

Love wins.

Morrie's Mantra: "Love each other or die."

CHAOS AND DISORDER

Candle flicker makes a movietime sequence
Humid thoughts stretched between
Anticipate the unveiling of a menagerie's beam
Outstretched from a shell to gasp breathe again
Senses aware pondering if I'm me again

Alas a stalemate we are at now
Neandratholled thoughts all around
Dare I stand erect to rejoin the race

Derelict's score bags for their feet
I'm just an experiencing veiwer amongst the streets
Searching am I for escape from the nite
Ongoing through the sludge of strife
Rear and buck fight and not be broken
Detour the time towards cemented images
Encounter the fortunes many do possess
Riches only come if you survive the test