Pretty sure now
that I’m done seeing Woody’s movies.
It was creepy what he did to Mia
and weird that he did it with Soon-Yi
and kind of rotten what happened with Dylan
– assuming it’s true –
but I could forgive all that.
As a white male jew
it is my privilege to forget all that
but I refuse to accept
the diminishing returns
of his formalist experiments
and pseudo-intellectualism
and just plain unfunny films.

He’s not a good man
we’ve seen that over years now
but I see no evidence
that he is still a good artist.
Perhaps he has no more creativity within him
after blowing his wad
on the kids.

It doesn’t matter how.
His crimes against nature
and morality and law…
I would take all of those
but for him to go back to the well
for Irrational Man,
that’s just bananas
and I cannot take it any more.

Woody’s committed
the one unacceptable act:
he stopped being great.