Tug Dumbly # 36 - Play It

Play It

Airbrush actors from old movies  

for sex crimes, moral

misdemeanours, unsavoury views.

Re-ghost Bogart with a double

in Casablanca.  You know what he did

as well as I do.

The dream’s always been to censor the dark

with a clean second take. Ask Gatsby

and Kane about reshooting mistakes.

Truth always negotiates its visa

with a gun. Freedom’s a cash transaction.

So round up the usual suspects, and action.

And while you’re at it tidy up Antiquity.

We’ll always have morality. C’mon

play it, Samuel L. Jackson.