{"id":13263,"date":"2023-08-11T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=13263"},"modified":"2024-01-09T21:04:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T21:04:40","slug":"a-coming-of-age-movie-that-does-not-toil-in-darkness-or-in-this-movie-no-one-suffers-after-danez-smith-andy-markert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=13263","title":{"rendered":"A Coming of Age Movie that Does Not Toil in Darkness OR In This Movie No One Suffers (after Danez Smith) – Andy Markert"},"content":{"rendered":"Opening scene.\n \nWe meet a boy at the grave of a friend\nafter one too many funerals.\nHis stubble is sparse,\nbecause 18-year-old facial hair\nhasn\u2019t turned to the daggers of a man.\nAnd he remembers,\nwith other mourners gathered\nhow the obituaries always call us artists\nTo be polite about how tortured we are.\n \nAs if art is the only polite way to excuse\nThe trouble we caused.\n \nCut to –\n \nWe are all alive again and screaming lyrics to a song\nproclaiming how no one likes us when we are 23\neven though none of us are.\nFaces beaming\nout by a bonfire\nand we are young again\nin our black v necks\nand black jeans\nand none of us\nHave thought of death.\n \nAs a fire roars in front of us.\n \nWe pretend we are whole and\nHome\nIn a family that we\u2019ve chosen.\n \nFade to\n \nA warm spring day\nand we each hug one another\nall of us alive\nand joyful.\n \nBecause surrender is easy\nwhen you don\u2019t know what the war is like.\n \nWe didn\u2019t know that every moment of suffering\nWas just the basic training to a longer battle.\n \nThat seems so far away.\n \nAnd today no addict died.\nbecause today no addict died.\nbecause yesterday no addict died.\n \nAnd we are all free in ways we\nhave never felt before.\nThe sirens are far away.\n \nBecause this movie was never about the death,\nbut the life in this moment\n \nBecause each day we see each other again\nand for this moment we are breathless in\nthe possibility\nof all the things we can become\nhave become\nhave survived.\n \nGod lives on the lips of everyone\nand He tells you\n \nFor the first time –\n \nYou are forgiven.\n \nAnd if no one else\nwill have you\n \nWe will.\n \nRoll credits.\n \nOpening scene.\n \n\n\nAndy Markert is an internationally trained poet and performer living in Seattle, Washington. He can be found regularly at the Nuyorican Poets Caf\u00e9, Rain City Slam, and other slam poetry venues. For information on bookings, please contact him on IG at @andymeerkatt.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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