Questions for the Casting Department

what is keeping Tom Cruise from the role of Napoleon
when that frenzied bravado oozes for a sword, a pair of doeskin britches
and a large Lippizaner prancer

I am thinking France without De Gaulle
gonads ghosting
glory on a leash

the one that’s small
get him

most of you know Eli Wiesel
that face departed
as something stolen
a tattoo of corporate indifference
a mirror in which we see ourselves

can Harrison Ford take this on
to find his inner Lost Ark
the actor that is wanting

Its time to do another movie of General Patton
and to do it right:
the mystery wants to dance with psychic agility
and for that we need Christopher Walken
eyes that live in hell
a tinnish voice that speaks from there

so put a helmet on his head and try him out
let him slap a man
and walk among the dead