“The Junebugs” is a Cinematic Poem Short Film Featuring an Original Steve Scafidi Lincoln Poem Directed By Chris Kelly.
Creative Director: Chris Kelly
Art Direction: Colin Trenter
Producer: TJ Kearney
Screenplay: Justin Kelly
Production Company: Oddfellows
Music and Sound by Antfood
Design and Illustration: Yuki Yamada, Hana Kim
Titles: Lisa Mishima
Animation: Stan Cameron, Chris Anderson, Nata Metlukh, Josh Parker, Kavan Magsoodi, Jay Quercia, Lorraine Sorlet, Chris Kelly, Colin Trenter and Jordan Scott
Read by: David Purdham
THE JUNEBUGS by Steve Scafidi
Hey boy come here — quick,
so he dropped his rake and
ran to the yard by the house
where probably five hundred
junebugs like a pile of emeralds
and rubies glistened crawling
over each other under each other
in the grass. By god look at them
fornicating, he said and his son
said Hold on, I got an idea, and ran
to the house for the bundle of
twine and gunpowder he had tied
together into a bomb for such
a purpose and blew an equally
glittering hole in the yard
a foot into the earth and the punch
his father landed reverberated
in his skull for the rest of his life
and when the assassin fired
it was the last thing he saw —
junebugs everywhere crawling
glistening in the tall summer grass.
Websites: http://oddfellows.tv/work/junebugs
Cinematic Poems 