Milkshake Poem (Before Sunrise) |
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Give me a word and I will write you a poem...
... robs you blind, okay?
- You were like a boy walking by an ice-cream store, crying because his mom won't buy him a milkshake or something.
- I don't care what this charlatan has to say about--
[he says something in German]
- What? I understand a little bit, but he doesn't at all, sorry.
- ok, may I ask you a question?
- Yeah.
- So I would like to make a deal with you. I mean, instead of just asking you for money, I will ask you for a word .You give me a word, I take the word, and then I will write a poem, with the word inside. And if you like it, if you like my poem, if it adds something to your life in any way, then you can pay me whatever you feel like. I'll write in English, of course. Okay.
- All right. Ok.
- Ok.
- So? Pick a word.
- A word?
- Milkshake.
- Milkshake? Oh, good.
- I was gonna say rooster prick. But great. Milkshake.
- Milkshake? Okay, milk shake. All right, so.
- Good.
- I gotta say, I like this viennese variation of bum.
- I like what he said about adding something to your life
- So, were we having our first fight back there?
- I think so. I think we were. Even if we were, why does everyone think conflict is so bad? There's a lot of good things coming out of conflict.
- Yeah, I guess so.
- I always think if I could just accept the fact that my life was supposed to be difficult, that's what's expected, then I might not get so pissed off. And I'd just be glad when something nice happens. That's why I'm still in school. It's easier to have something to fight against.
- Well, we've all had such competitiveness ingrained in us
You know, I can be doing the most nothing thing
Throwing some darts or shooting some pool
Then all of a sudden, I feel it come over me
I have got to win
- Is that why you tried to get me off the train? Competitiveness?
- What do you mean?
- I got a poem
- Oh, all right. Will you read it to us?
- Sure. Okay
- "Daydream delusion"
Limousine eyelash
Oh, baby, with your pretty face
Drop a tear in my wine glass Look at those big eyes
See what you mean to me
Sweetcakes and milkshakes
I am a delusion angel
I' m a fantasy parade
I want you to know what I think Don't want you to guess anymore
You have no idea where I came from
We have no idea where we're going
Lodged in life
Like branches in the river
Flowing downstream Caught in the current
I carry you
You'll carry me
That's how it could be
Don't you know me?
Don't you know me by now?"
- Great. Thanks.
- Thanks, man. Here you go. Thanks.
- All right. Here. Thank you.
- Thank you. Good luck man.
- Bye.
- Bye.
In the film 'Before Sunrise' when Jesse and Celine take a walk alongside a river around the midnight in Vienna, a sort of homeless guy asks them to give him some amount of money if they would like his poem which has include a word they choose. Then they pick up a word ‘Milkshake’.