Django Unchained *

“We must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

---Camus

In that scene where Jamie Foxx

does target practice on a snowman—

that means it was someone’s job

to drive or fly to some remote location

where there’s snow everywhere,

wake up before the sun,

and make like thirty snowmen.

Thirty perfect snowmen.

Exactly

how Tarrantino wants.

My friend Ricky does that sort of work

for films, TV shows. Whatever

company hires him to work minimum wage,

over 12 hours a day, sweating and lifting and sprinting around and

doing whatever they want

so maybe eventually someone will take note and ask him to

finally,

call the shots.

Ricky, I hope when you’re post-holing

through two feet of snow in the middle of nowhere,

and you’ve only rolled 7 of 90

giant, perfectly spherical snowballs,

and the sun

peaks

finally

over the mountains,

you feel

really, sincerely

blessed.

*for Richard Brown