Hollywood Is Dead

The chandeliers were the first to tremble...

 The audience, weighted down by Harry Winston diamonds & Botox treatments, looked up nervously...

 Initially, blinded by their own vanity, puffed up with self adulation & dosed with perfection for the occasion, they ignored the signs...

 Then the auditorium really started to shake. The very floor beneath their pedicured feet gave way to movie star screams & shear panic...

 No acting required...

 This was the real deal...La la land no more...

  Atmospheric rivers, unheard of ever before, had supremely doused the parched & unstable land...

 Fancy cars & limos swallowed whole by hungry & angry sink holes...

Mother Earth was pissed!!! And the last were to become first & the first, well...we know what became of them...

 Buried ball gowns, designer purses, tuxedos & statues...

 Ahhhh...Oscar schmOscar...

 Your world exists no more...

 A just punishment for such lavish lifestyles, many may say...

 The glaring imbalance of wealth, conspicuous consumption and wasted resources corrected by the great law of the Universe...

 The scales of justice reset by greedy mans' hands...

 A few blocks away, the untouchables cowered in makeshift camps on Skid Row...Praying to a God many thought had long gone...

 But with a faith this strong...so strong in the face of their adversity, the surrounding buildings swayed & fell away...

 The ground held fast under dirty shoeless feet...

 Salvation shone on Skid Row that day...

 And though dust swirled & people huddled closer together, their camps held fast...

 They emerged when the shaking stopped...

 Unharmed yet fragile...

 Shaken but not scared...

 Yes...it was The Big One, alright...

 And it finally came...

written by Helen L Bird March 2017 @Birdhelen #helenbirdart & photography...

In light of the recent Weinstein scandal, I felt this piece somehow as more appropriate today as it was back then, earlier on this year. As the growing disparity between the rich & poor, the have's & have not's grows wider, it seems as though 'their' house of cards is & will come down. Truth & justice WILL prevail...the first will become last & the last will become first. 

Photo: Helen Bird Golden Gate Bridge 2007