Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television by Klosterman Chuck

Author:Klosterman, Chuck [Klosterman, Chuck]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2010-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

CALL ME “LIZARD KING.” NO … REALLY. I INSIST.

When I was leaving Val Kilmer’s ranch house, he gave me a present. He found a two-page poem he had written about a melancholy farmer, and he ripped it out of the book it was in (in 1988, Val apparently published a book of free-verse poetry called My Edens After Burns). He taped the two pages of poetry onto a piece of cardboard and autographed it, which I did not ask him to do. “This is my gift to you,” he said. I still possess this gift. Whenever I stumble across those two pages, I reread Val Kilmer’s poem. Its theme is somewhat murky. In fact, I can’t even tell if the writing is decent or terrible; I’ve asked four other people to analyze its merits, and the jury remain polarized. But this is what I will always wonder: Why did Val Kilmer give me this poem? Why didn’t he just give me the entire book? Was Kilmer trying to tell me something?

The man did not lack confidence.

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