Book to Poem
Four city slickers canoe
The Cahulawassee River
In the northwest Georgia wilderness.
An encounter with mountain men
Leads to sodomy and murder, what then?
Four city slickers canoe
The Cahulawassee River
In the northwest Georgia wilderness.
The four city slickers flee
But only find more misery.
Four city slickers canoe
The Cahulawassee River
In the northwest Georgia wilderness.
A city slicker drowns due to panic disorder,
Then another mountain man murdered.
Four city slickers canoe
The Cahulawassee River
In the northwest Georgia wilderness.
A cover-up the city slicker share
Only leads to severe nightmares.
Four city slickers canoe
The Cahulawassee River
In the northwest Georgia wilderness.
Will the truth ever surface?
Not if the bodies don’t resurface.
I love the repeated refrain. It really gives a sense that they are on the river this whole time and having all these terrible events happen.
I just watched this film again a couple weeks ago. And the poem captures perfectly the intense build of the film. The refrain does that well.