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Jim Meskimen Shares How to Succeed in Hollywood

by Bruce Edwin
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Hollywood Sentinel gives readers in each issue here, How to Succeed In Hollywood, without selling one’s soul. You can explore all of the back articles from the table of contents directory.

This month, we bring you here a poem and artwork by the incredibly talented film, TV, voiceover star, and artist Jim Meskimen. As a professional actor for nearly thirty years, some of Jim’s TV credits include “Friends,” “Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” “Rules of Engagement,” and “Whose Line is it, Anyway?” He has also appeared in an array of legendary feature films including “Apollo 13,” “The Grinch,” “Frost/Nixon,” “The Punisher,” and “There Will Be Blood,” among many more.

The following poem, “ON All The Time” by Jim Meskimen powerfully portrays the reality that so many creative artists, young and old have to face concerning invalidation of their creative spirit and artistic expression. It is an important reminder that as artists, we must never allow others jealousy, mockery, or suppression to dampen our spirit or to derail our goals. We must strive on, and live our true, authentic selves. Jim Meskimen and his incredibly talented family are perfect examples of doing just this.

Contact us at the front page of this site and let us know what obstacles you have had to overcome as an artist, and how you managed to thrive. Or, let us know of any advice you may want or need. We may publish our reply to you here in our next issue.

Artwork by Jim Meskimen ©2023

“ON” All The Time

by Jim Meskimen

When I was just a boy of nine

when grownups gathered for party time

I’d take it on to entertain,

do voices, clown, and I’d take pains

to make best efforts to amuse

to ease those weary, grownup blues.

(For adults seemed a weary lot

who joys of childhood had forgot.)

But frequently, instead of praise

or tolerance, I was amazed

to hear, as if it were a crime:

“Kid, must you be ‘on’ all the time?”

That comment always stopped me dead.

I couldn’t get it through my head

why anybody would object,

or treat me with such disrespect.

“ON all the time?” We’ve barely met!

Just how impatient can you get?

I’m not some infant smeared with mud,

I’ve got show business in my blood!

Don’t scold, consider my intent;

To spoil your evening I’m not bent!

I’m from a family of actors

and honestly, I need the practice!

Though I should have ignored that wheeze

I factored in my goal to please

and backed off from performing, though

it cut the legs out from my show.

And so, convinced of my “mistake”

I rapidly applied the brakes,

pulled myself over to the verge,

and parked my own creative urge.

The problem is, once stopped, my friends

It’s hard to get in gear again

after an interrupted flow,

as any critic’s victim knows.

Truth is, my critic lacked the skill,

or even worse than that, the will

to entertain, divert or charm,

and factually meant me harm.

As murder’s too overt, you see,

he sought to murder my esprit.

The goodness which a child bestows

he couldn’t bear to just let grow.

It went against his basic plan

to subjugate his fellow man.

To him a child should be as silent

as some undertaker’s client,

who never speaks or laughs or coughs,

but is quite permanently “off.”

Eventually, I grew to find

him pitiful, but, never mind.

The laugh’s on him, for all his pains,

I’m “on” for good … and shall remain.

https://www.jimmeskimen.com

“ON” All The Time ©2023, Jim Meskimen

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