The Director's Cut

To readdress our Mystery

With human telly-ology

I give you some small history

Of telling stories visually.

A queen walked in with regal shout

But in the cut, instead stormed out

And while this edit was divine

The regulator said, "Not fine".

You see it's really quite a crime

So royally to play with Time.

Now Avid tales can all be told

By putting 'new' before the 'old'

We must maintain the shared pretense

That cameras show 'real' events

(Though honestly no one can say

How this permits a cutaway).

With EDLs that may address

'Facts' with more moves than those of chess

As messages in poetry

May order sense with symmetry.

It's no great threat to most of Art

To put the horse behind the cart -

But to get human from a fish

Takes frequent asymmetric wish.

Since entropy forever free

Does not provide complexity,

Though often sense appears post hoc

You can't make soup before the stock.

And this is why you cannot plan

Without eggs breaking omelette an.


(some background for our overseas viewers http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1557283/BBC-blames-RDF-for-insult-to-the-Queen.html)