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The Justice Dept on Netroots Radio Presents: "Sung in a Strained Louche Unison" [1]
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Date: 2023-04-02
The pre-revolutionary New Wave nuns
in La Religieuse’s worse first convent, locked up
for everything, slip little scribbled paper slips
into a small wooden box at mass, one by one
in a soft stone room
where the cinematography’s saturation
and a creamy blue nimbus
emanating from every surface
make the movie theater’s patrons’ faces
look like crickets twitching in a nebula,
an orchestra drowning in its pit. “That looks fun,”
whispered one to the left of me,
“do you think they’re voting?” You know
some artful gravity beyond the screen
might just be. Anna Karina rats on them
and gets out in the end. But it’s not the end.
If you think this damp little room you live in
is all that’s holding you
you’re right. Every second is a door
bolted shut. You can hear your music
behind a few, but only one or two will open.
Anna’s second convent seems
better at first—carnations
who knew she’d missed them all winter, chords
to a popular ballad tapped out in code
and sung in a strained, louche unison
replacing those lonesome hymns
in praise of nothing but reward—
but then the final shot crosses
all of it out. The mess they leave her in
feels pretty uncalled for, to say the least.
There’s no third convent,
no exit theme, and when the lights go up
you’re not as glad to have witnessed it
as to see the one who was talking trash,
a sentence drumming in your throat.
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