Day Thirteen

Today's words:

Minute

Catastrophe

Spanner

Union

Strategy

Film

In less than a minute

What was going so well can collapse into catastrophe

As easily as a spanner

Can undo the union

Between nut and bolt. But there must be a strategy

Out there to save this film.

So far, all they've got on film

Is a fifty-two minute

Montage of scenes. There's no strategy

Or plot. It's already a catastrophe

And they haven't even approached the union.

That's bound to throw a monkey wrench (spanner

For you UK types) into the works. But maybe a spanner

Is just what this film

Needs. Something to forge a union

Out of the ninety minute

Catastrophe

They've got now. Perhaps that's their strategy.

An accidental strategy

Certainly, but no less likely to work than the right-sized spanner

Can avert a catastrophe.

It could convert this film

From a minute

Footnote into a powerful union

Of acting and directing talent. A union

Based on a strategy

Meant to make each minute

Reach the next, like a spanner

Fuses two parts, making the film

A masterpiece, rather than a catastrophe.

"Citizen Kane" was originally judged a catastrophe,

And so it may be here. The union

Of these seemingly unrelated bits of film

Can give birth to a strategy.

We need something to act as a bridge, or spanner.

It'll take only a minute.

Just as out of catastrophe a strategy 

Can emerge, so can a union of these scenes be bridged by a spanner

And a marketable film created in under a minute.