"The Pretenders Have a Ball" or ("Ode to Eliphaz
and Oscar")
"Hold a picture of yourself long and steady enough in your mind's eye,
and you will be drawn to it." --Harry Emerson Fosdick
"The Pretenders Have a Ball" or ("Ode to Eliphaz and Oscar")
Finally!... Oscar Night is over! (Those Green Chariots and all!) Where HUGE Egos flash 'n' glitter... The Pretenders had a ball!
Envy's color was in fashion... Self-Absorption?....Center Stage! Chasing Fame's the main attraction... It's The Wisdom of the Age.
Narcissism finds its venue In this Pompous Circumstance; Watch the Blue-Green Silver Screeners Chasing Gold through Song and Dance.
Yes, we see the
"Look-at-Me!" crowd, Make Believe's well-painted best, Utter deeply-held convictions... ("Note my fine uplifted breast!")
Follow them to darkened chambers... Sacred Temples at The Mall. Pop-Corn Priests of High Delusion Underscoring mankind's Fall.
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Ahhh....The Caravans of Tema* Travel through this wilderness... Bright-Star film Oasis Seekers, Our Pied-Pipers of the West.
* "The caravans of Tema look for water, The traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope. They are distressed because they had been confident; They arrive there, only to be disappointed. Now you too have proven to be no help..."
(Job 6:19)
[In the Hebrew the word for "tema" infers a
position of power and strength. In the verse above, Job is
addressing his 'friend', Eliphaz...a name that in Hebrew
means "god of gold".]
