blue days, black nights

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Jim Carrey, Eva Mendes
Featuring: Allan Mcleod, AJ Culp and Ellie Culp
Created by: Derek Waters
Directed by: Jeremy Konner and Derek Waters
Edited by: Jeremy Konner
Produced by: Betsy Koch and Matt Mazany
Production Designer: Rachel Robb Kondrath
Wardrobe Stylist: Janicza Bravo
Costumer: Noel Hennessy

Vladimir Mayakovsky at Yalta with Lili Brik, 1926

You came –
determined,
because I was large,
because I was roaring,
but on close inspection
you saw a mere boy.
You seized
and snatched away my heart
and began
to play with it –
like a girl with a bouncing ball.
And before this miracle
every woman
was either a lady astounded
or a maiden inquiring:
“Love such a fellow?
Why, he’ll pounce on you!
She must be a lion tamer,
a girl from the zoo!”
But I was triumphant.
I didn’t feel it –
the yoke!
Oblivious with joy,
I jumped
and leapt about, a bride-happy redskin,
I felt so elated
and light.

Text by V.M.