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animagusurreal
01-20-2005, 06:53 PM
"Elephants Bathing", a pencil sketch from last year.
Copyright 2004 Brent M. Parker
(Note to Disney people - not *directly* based on The Jungle Cruise ;) )

"Ah, it's okay to take pictures. They've all got their trunks on..." :D

Elephant sketch (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v411/animagusurreal/Mail0046.jpg)


Animated version (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v411/animagusurreal/ElephantDrinks2.gif)

And then, the poem- this was a rumination on reality and fantasy colliding on three trips to Disneyland in 2002.

(Oh, BTW, no offense to anyone who lives in Anaheim - when I refer to Harbor Blvd. as "disturbingly average", I mean in comparison to the magic kingdom. I would also refer to my own hometown as "disturbingly average" in this context.)


"Facts and Fancy"
Copyright 2002 Brent M. Parker

A daub of equine excrament
Not yet swept up
Adds a pungant aire
Of magic realism
To the molded mellowness
Of Main Street

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Biting the sandwich in your hand as you
stride o'er the queue chain
And off
To peer into other pleasure portals
(With all the other mortals)
Foraging instant gratification

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Real, live crows
Perched obliviously atop
Flat cartoon hills

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Actual, genuine tears
Rushing down the flumes of your cheek
To drip into a perpetual frontier river
(Populated
With more real, live birds,
Who came for the magic of
Tourists with popcorn)
To Jackson Pollack into
That preplanned "frontier river"
As you
Sit there
In a chair
There
For no apparent reason

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Your Hotel Clerk
Jolly and jumpy as a nearly caught leprechaun,
Saying, "I'll let you think it over"
As he
Adjourns
To your bathroom
Chatting,
By Tinkerbell-tiny cell phone,
With his gatekeeper girlfriend
Whom, he says, can secure you
More powerful passports
If you only meet her at the Denny's
On the disturbingly average Harbor Blvd.
And greet her with the code words:
"Que Pasa?"

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Hopping
A jesterishly jarring
Roller coaster
Before traversing the terrors
Of leaping -
Unharnessed -
From the back of a carousel seahorse

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Across
The disturbingly average Harbor Blvd.
A quite smooth, quite firm
IHOP table
Supports your dreaming head
Quite well...

The vaccum surrounding you
Interrupted only by vaccuming
Accompanied by
A shockingly sincere
"Oh, sorry to wake you!"

"Well," you think,
"The magic can cross the street!"

Opus1guy
01-20-2005, 07:31 PM
"Elephants Bathing"

What elephant?

(an old vaudeville era gag/punch line)

:)