Notes from the Censor
Cut the entire city of Paris from reel 5B
of Casablanca. They’ll never have it now.
Cut line, “How much I still love you”.
Cut the entire sick relationship.
Regarding reel 6C, the birth scene must
be redacted, must come out (unlike certain deviants).
Leave the miles they lavish on unsanitary salutations
curdling in the bins, like the linen in the laundries.
Leave out Mr. Presley and his abominable gyrations,
leave out the customs of the divorcing foreign classes.
Cut that useless close-up in Rick’s tavern,
where the national anthem is playing,
and a woman is crying for her country.
The Kindling 