Whatever Happened? - Philip Larkin
At once whatever happened starts receding. Panting, and back on board, we line the rail With trousers ripped, light wallets, and lips bleeding.
Yes, gone, thank God! Remembering each detail We toss for half the night, but find next day All's kodak-distant. Easily, then (though pale),
'Perspective brings significance,' we say, Unhooding our photometers, and, snap! What can't be printed can be thrown away.
Later, it's just a latitude: the map Points out how unavoidable it was: 'Such coastal bedding always means mishap.'
Curses? The dark? Struggling? Where's the source Of these yarns now (except in nightmares, of course)?
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Few Fav Scenes from Forrest Gump
EXT. GUMP HOUSE - NIGHT
Through the windows, Forrest and Jenny are dancing as it rains outside.(Sweet Home Alabama playing)
FORREST (voice-over)
And she even showed me how to dance. And, well, we was like family... Jenny and me.
EXT. HIGHWAY
Forrest is running along the highway. Forrest runs down a road between field of wheat. A Mountain river. Forrest runs across a cobble-stone bridge. The Rocky Mountains are behind him in distance. Forrest runs through some meadowland. Split rail fences line the road.
FORREST (voice-over)
I'd think a lot about Momma and Bubba, and Lieutenant Dan, but most of all, I thought about Jenny. I thought about her a lot.
EXT. MONUMENT VALLEY
Forrest runs with a group that follows behind him.
FORREST (voice-over)
Anyway, like I was saying, I had a lot of company. My Momma always said you got to put the past behind you before you can move on. And I think that's what my running was all about. I had run for three years, two months, fourteen days, and sixteen hours.
EXT. GUMP HOUSE BALCONY - NIGHT
Forrest looks down the road as he steps onto the porch.
FORREST (voice-over)
But at night time, when there was nothing to do and the house was all empty, I'd always think of Jenny.
(Jenny's image walks, then vanishes. Forrest looks away. He turns and walks into the house.)
Never thought my life would take a Forrest Gumpish turn, it's the nights that are difficult to get through.
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