With apologies to famous Hollywood feature director Frank Capra, who joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps in WWII (the same branch my father, a radar operator, and Ray Harryhausen, a stop-motion animator were in) and made a series of seven documentaries collectively called “Why We Fight,” which are studied to this day in film classes as brilliant, virtuous pieces of propaganda, unlike Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl’s 1936 Berlin Olympics documentary “Triumph Of The Will,” which everyone agrees is a brilliant, evil, racist piece of propaganda, because we won. Right?
I write to exorcise my
DEMONS
I write
to keep myself from
killing people
who richly deserve it
I write instead of screaming, instead of therapy
I write to slowly winch myself out of the muck
I just write because I have to, okay?
Malcolm J. Brenner 