Richard Dreyfuss
It will be a lonely reunion for Richard Dreyfuss
in the cabin of the Orca.
With Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw gone
he will be all alone
walking the deck.
He will stoically maintain the fiction
that there is no other crew,
no fourth wall
between him and the audience.
No bestboy, no grip, no camera auteur
He is the last one left.
Your crew mates drop away
with time,
but the Monster remains
for all time.
You have to keep killing the shark over and over
until finally it kills you.
There is no other end
to any of our stories.
Even Richard Dreyfuss will walk the plank.
Ninjas can’t dance
Ninjas can’t dance
if the music ain’t disco
That is their secret limitation,
a truth that is a threat to their dignity.
It ain’t much.
They can still kill
and fly and turn invisible
and such.
Just don’t expect them to bust a move,
if it ain’t disco.
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Sharks and ninjas – we all win, and there is a pirate reference.