Baby, I Don’t CareThe title is Robert Mitchum's famous line from the 1947 film noir, Out of the Past, directed by Jacques Tourneur, and also starring Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas.never thought I’d say it couldn't sound like Mitchum tolling every syllable like his death knell before he kisses Jane Greer on the beach at Acapulco Are you sure? she asks adding extra bait to the hook Baby I don’t care he says and as soon as he kisses her all the traffic lights on his road to hell turn greenwho can blame him? remember her entrance strolling at sunset into La Mar Azul (hot chilli cold tequila)the flies stop buzzing a guitar starts to throbthe kind of girl a guy would die for 'die from' more likely three corpses from four bullets is handy shooting takes two for Kirk Douglas a durable performer even thenyou’d turn a few heads in La Mar Azul flesh aglowfrom stolen Aztec sun but we're in a real-life drama and you're the girl with the dead-end part the stiff in a tragedy by Stupidity the Three Stooges hamming as your doctors but you fluff your exit lines mess-up your death scene three times over so when I kiss you (it won't be in Acapulco) I’m stalled at a detour on the road to hell facing red grateful I'm going nowherewhile Mitchum charges flat-chat to the inferno you're asleep now no empty bed yet damns my breaking day and for the rest when I hear them trilling about property prices blathering about positive thinking getting lubricious over big cars and bigger careers spending their waking hours with the All Ordinaries then believe me Baby (if you'll wear the diminutive) I don’t careLook At My EyesLook at my eyes.I'm dead behind these eyes.Archie Rice, eponymous character in John Osborne's play, The Entertainer, (1957).I know how Archie feelsafter the fire's gone outeasy to grab at pain killersa few swigs of self-deceitno trouble doing drugshelpful doctors will oblige or try DIYno one will noticeyou'll still be