Thursday 26 November 2015

Whatever: A Poem About the Movies

Whatever

A million scenes I've seen
A million times before
Someone checks their gun for bullets,
What a surprise, just one left.

No one ever says goodbye
Before they hang up the phone.
Why bother having a phone?
When there's never a signal?

These days women keep their bras on during sex
And only the baddies smoke cigarettes
Unless it's the sixties, then everyone smokes
Just to remind you that you're watching the past.

Every keystroke is signalled by a beep
Every nightmare ends with a scream
These are the movies
And I see them in my dreams.

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