As falls Wichita, so falls Wichita Falls...?

As Wichita falls, so falls Wichita Falls probably indicates causality. This happens then that happens. Much like the story.

It's a simple play on words, more like a Kansas joke that Cusack's character wrote in the bathrooms all over town. Almost a parallel to his character, think about it... it's a silly play on words that can almost be thought of written by a poet. His character is lawyer (parallels a serious poet) who decides to rob his mob boss and lives a pretty screwed up life(the silly poem).

Come to think of it, if you saw that in a bathroom, the first thing that comes to your mind is... "wow that's different. there's no phone number for a good time. a poet wannabe".

Ok that maybe a stretch.

As Wichita falls, so falls Wichita Falls. Wichita is falling (suffering from moral decay) as steadily as a waterfall falls.

That is what I got, at least, hehe, maybe I'm dead wrong.

Its a play on words.....a sentence going around in circles like the movie and the characters are going round in circles on many levels.
For example John Cusack wife cheating on him with his friend Oliver Pratt and making his life miserable......then Oliver Pratt marrying her and now she is probably cheating on him and making his life miserable.

Thornton thinks he is using Cusack and will get away with the money and Connie Nielsen.........Connie thinks she is using both Cusack and Thornton and will end up with the money in the end........Cusack thinks he will get half the money and wants Connie to come away with him.

The same is the case with the locations in the movie....the Striptease joint........the restaurant........Oliver Pratts house........the Striptease joint. you get the idea?

It's just a play on words. If you don't get it, you're looking too hard.

"The duality of man..."

It is... "As Wichita falls, so falls Wichita Falls."

As for its meaning, it's about the causality of things... something happening causing something else to happen, which causes something else to happen, etc.

You guys have all never been in a bathroom of a strip joint or a dive bar, then? There's all kinds of sh!t scrawled on the walls. It really means nothing, except it sounds amusing, and probably more so when drunk.

And I don't see how anything that happens in Wichita KS has any effect on Wichita Falls TX. But what do I know about that region? I'd think that OKC would play more a part in the life of Wichita Falls.

Also, I don't think that Charlie wrote it all around town, just on Sidney's mother's camper. The first time we see it, when Charlie's pissing, he's reading it, and thinking about it, and doesn't look like he's just admiring his own work.