When Nicholson took to the screen
and didn't mold to Ratched's scheme
and plotted his escape like Steve McQueen
we knew:
The battle's lost, but not the War!
Only true losers are ignored:
Why don't you write a Dixie tune for me?
The Combine never broke before
this cunning R.P. stole the floor
and freed the minds that Ratched whored to sleep.
McMurphy sowed what he would reap
'cause Big Nurse Ratched plays for keeps
and poor R.P. had his labotamy...
The worst of Ratched's therapies!
A Purgatory without dreams
but Bromden saved him from this misery
And now the Chief is free to dream
I wonder if he'd ever sing:
Why won't you write a Dixie tune for me?
The Battle's lost, but not the War!
Remember me, I do implore
Why don't you write a Dixie tune for me?
A contest entry
- ~Golden Arena~ by Virgoan.
500 points, ended July 18, 2007, 18 entries
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I like the illustrations you have taken in this piece.
Thanks so much for sharing this beautiful piece. I wish you all the best in the contest. Keep writing my friend.
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That was a good movie.
Jack Nicholson outdid himself, and that guy who played the big Indian was magnificent. Too bad I can't remember his name. This is an interesting write, but I don't quite get how the movie related to Dixie?
Anyway, you've done well enough with this, so it's not important, I guess.
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It has to do with...
the passion of men who fight on the losing side of a war.
That's what Dixie's all about, and when you study American-History, all you hear about the Southerners is how passionate about their cause they were...Nevermind the fact that they were on the wrong side of the slavery debate! They were passionate fighters, and thus, they deserve our respect.
Much like R.P. McMurphy deserves our respect when one questions the roles of anti-feminazi-ism.
Take care Ecrivain!
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