I’m trying to remember my Iambic Pentameter.
Iamb, I said, to no one there,
except, that is, Neil Diamond’s chair.
The chair Clint Eastwood spoke to, once?
Not his best gig; he looked like a dunce.
He was such a bad ass in “Outlaw Josie Wales”
Particularly when he escaped from those jails.
But then he made all those monkey flicks
And then his City Heat and Bronco Billy schticks
It’s too bad his machismo has petered out
Time is a force no one can flout.
Then as a director he found his niche
How soon we forget. What about ‘Dirty Harry’? Sheesh!
His best role, I think: In the Line of Fire
But *Heartbreak Ridge *really raises my ire
In Paint Your Wagon Clint did “sing”
the scare quotes reveal it just wasn’t his thing.
In Tarantula, he napalmed a big freakin’ spider.
but never played a bishop wearing a mitre.
‘Gran Torino’ was an eye opener.