11-15-2022, 12:02 AM
Worst Movie
Perhaps the worst movie of all time
was also one of the first:
D. W. Griffith's Birth
of a Nation which portrayed
Ku-Klux Klan as heroes,
blacks as vilely as one can conceive
and Lincoln’s assassination
in a way that Woodrow Wilson,
rabid racist unsurpassed,
declared ex cathedra “as it was.”
Yet Nation also birthed
in shocking maturity
each cinematic trick, trope, and technique
the form has ever since deployed–
an entire art, its natal masterpiece
in service to a lie.
Perhaps the worst movie of all time
was also one of the first:
D. W. Griffith's Birth
of a Nation which portrayed
Ku-Klux Klan as heroes,
blacks as vilely as one can conceive
and Lincoln’s assassination
in a way that Woodrow Wilson,
rabid racist unsurpassed,
declared ex cathedra “as it was.”
Yet Nation also birthed
in shocking maturity
each cinematic trick, trope, and technique
the form has ever since deployed–
an entire art, its natal masterpiece
in service to a lie.
Non-practicing atheist