Not North, Not NorthwestBy Noah Berlatsky
Cary Grant plays some other guy.
Telegram the man who isn’t there, hide microfilm and catch a spy. Death is bourbon drunk in borrowed tie, sloppy and yet debonair. Cary Grant plays some other guy. The blonde, the match, the breath imply a secret lip and something bare. Hidden microfilm to catch a spy. Corn falls like bullets from the sky. The dust spells out a nom de guerre: “Cary Grant.” Some other guy —MacGuffin—has an alibi. The gun fires blanks. The plot’s a snare of microfilm to catch a spy who climbs the mountain of his eye. The tunnel opens like a prayer to Grant. Or to some other guy shot on film. Caught like a spy. Noah Berlatsky tried to be a poet 20 years ago and failed. He's trying again. In the middle there he wrote a book about the original Wonder Woman comics. His twitter is @nberlat.
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