Thanks Judy,
Call me Steve or Captain. 'S.K.' is just a signature. I have a slightly
more final version of 'Ode to Agent Eighty-six' if you're interested...
Cap'n
>
> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:57:15 -0400
> From: judy prince <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Vale Maxwell Smart (Don Adams)
>
> Shall I call you S.K.?
>
> Thank you for the wonderful tribute to Don Adams and an era hidden in cod=
> es=20
> that have carried forward so that now we can blast them from every umbrel=
> la=20
> handle and talking shoe.
>
> I sometimes think that each Madison Avenue adwriter, each television=20
> scriptwriter and each suburban husband knew what our sons who read sci-fi=
> =20
> novels, stock market reports and election returns know.
>
> And I pray steadily that the generations join---those with time retired a=
> nd=20
> those with quicker strength and quiet brilliance---to fight all these New=
> =20
> Battles for the sake of our sad and hopeful world.
>
> Thanks for the tribute to Don,
>
> Judy
>
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: "S. K. Kelen" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 10:33 PM
> Subject: [POETRYETC] Vale Maxwell Smart (Don Adams)
>
>
> Ode to Agent Eighty-six
>
> The schoolbus almost stops &
> Literacy=B9s uniformed supplicants
> leap to the footpath, as big brother drives home
> from the 8 am shift in time for toast and tinnies.
> Surfers rush in from the sea, screen doors slam.
> The TV switches on, the dial clicks to 7
> a dot swells to a blue screen & colours: the grey
> Washington sky settles over a city of monuments
> and intrigue. A red convertible pulls up as it has
> every weekday for fifteen years and Agent 86=8B
> Maxwell Smart=8Bjumps out, makes a call in a phonebooth
> drops underground walks through a hall of
> opening and slamming doors into the heart of Control.
> After his tie and jacket are chewed up by the Univac
> computer=8BSorry about that=8B Max insists
> the Chief use the Cone of Silence
> to discuss issues of national security.
> Later in the day, standing at a newspaper stand
> his shoe rings and he answers it but noticing
> suspicious activity...=8CI=B9ll call you later, Chief,=B9
> he says to the shoe and exchanges information
> with an agent stationed inside a mailbox. Now he=B9s
> driving beyond the city limits to a recently built
> Control ghost town where two robots
> battle for good and evil =AD control and kaos =AD
> while in the city=B9s seamy underbelly
> a man-ape slips off Radio Tower
> emitting a recorded Tarzan call.
> Sunset: a meeting with the enemy
> to ensure Kaos and Control=B9s mutual survival so
> they can go on fighting each other. There=B9s sexy,
> sultry Agent 99 who loves and wants to marry Max
> and each time the game is up, (water rising,
> walls and spikes closing in) they nearly kiss
> but Escape or Rescue stupidly intervene
> and their love is kept on hold until the last series.
> =8CIf only he=B9d used his genius for goodness
> instead of evil=B9, Max shakes his head the umpteenth
> time at another vanquished villain the Chief
> and Laraby book and escort to headquarters.
> The credits come down, Smart walks into a door.
> Go Max go! the afternoon viewers cheer
> from loungerooms in the Free World=B9s suburbs
> he helps keep free with laughter
>
>
>
> S. K. KE
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