Express It In Eight Poems

Failure to communicate

Sam Adams often thought
the line in the movie
Cool Hand Luke
“what we got here is a failure to communicate”
Was an apt metaphor
for much of contemporary American life
Wondering if the red and blue states
Could ever co-exist, was divorce inevitable?


“There's no crying in baseball!” - A League of Their Own, 1992

“What we've got here is failure to communicate.” - Cool Hand Luke, 1967