The day fades in from darknessand we see a man leaning
against the counter in a kitchen somewhere,
coffee in both hands raised as if he were about to drink
but his gaze is unfocused at a point a thousand miles
past the cabinets it is directed at.
It is a moment for the opening scene of a movie
except someone didn't pay the sound engineers -
you know those guys whose names scroll endlessly
at the end while you are weighing the ethics
of picking up your popcorn and half empty giant slurp -
so there is no soundtrack.
What does this scene mean without the music
of this man's life?
He becomes a Rorschach test
where we impose all our own emotions,
triumphs and failures on him
and he doesn't even know it.
Audio:
https://youtu.be/7dDFGi95dLU or
https://soundcloud.com/mbonica/the-man-rorschach
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