sIntros   Short films are quick fixes
that satisfy our
unnamed need.
Shoot them fast;
love them
for a long, long time.
       
sTitles Mrs. Carmella


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sWordss The universe has sent us many muses. One of them is Mrs. Carmella: age 89, depression era baby, good Catholic, Marigny native, storyteller.

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sPoems She is nearly beatified:
in the yard,
cutting grass,
with a sickle.

She is 89 years old.
A ripe age for
remembering.

And she tells me a story from kindergarten.
from the Great Depression.
She tells me the first time she ate graham crackers…
crumbled in milk.
She even remembers yesterday
and last week.

She is a ripe age for remembering.
She is walking the double infinity.
She is halfway to Heaven.

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sWordss We are very, very interested in what Mrs. Carmella has to say. She is our guide for when we get old. She shows us a way to be in the face of sweet death. She tells us to plant seeds for Jesus. We don't know exactly what that means, but it is something that gives her comfort. And, because she is comforted, our own anxiety about the end lessens. Maybe death is not the end. Maybe we can extend ourselves after. Or maybe we will swirl into the void. Whatever happens, it is most likely that she will go before us. And we will see her on the other side where she will tell us stories of what happened before we arrived. And, she will remember us, and we will know who she is.

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sEnds this is the end.
go back home.