Archive for the ‘Picture’ Category
The True Circle Of Life
August 18, 2009
Guns, God and Government
March 26, 2009
Something shifts now like a cheap film flashback. The sound is reduced to the dubbed down rattle of a projector’s plastic speaker. The voices sneak out through tiny holes from the past and Coma is just a little girl crying into the camera’s P.O.V. It is the President’s Bell and Howard Zoomatic, and although a fine photographic instrument it provides a somewhat grainy resolution.
Her tiny, nine-year-old body is drowning in a white gown and an over sized platinum blonde wig as she is dressed like a kiddy-porn Marilyn Monroe. The handle-held cinematography is nauseating at times as the beautiful little girl dances like an adult.
“Sing”, a voice off camera coaches her, “sing for daddy”.
Her eyes are black waterfalls of mascara and her tiny nose drips down onto her red smeared lips as she sings “Happy birthday, Mr. President”. “The gun, baby”, he whispers. The camera focus is disturbed and the sound of Mr. White’s pants unzipping becomes quite clear, although it’s hard to tell now if it’s on the projection or in the room this very moment. The sound of her voice struggles to stay in sync with the image.
On the large screen in the President’s private library, young Coma fellates the barrel of a shiny chrome revolver, gagging between syllables of Ha-ppy-Birth-day-to… The light from the projection reveals walls of film canisters where books might normally be. The President pinches a cigarette in one hand and his other has disappeared into the expensive cloth of his pants.
