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A Poem a Day: a Series – Day 186

Day 186: “The Movies”

We come to this place

To be transported

Another place

Another time

Another version of ourselves

We have aspirations

Fears

Laughs

We want to see play out

We push the button

Put our feet up

And relax into 2 hours of large-screen hilarity

Or passion

Or terror

Or whatever most excites us

We gawk at the previews

Planning our next move

Excited to see what our neighbor deems unwatchable

The lights dim

The movie starts

We’ll exit once the sun goes down

A Poem a Day: a Series – Day 78

Day 78: “Oh, Theater!”

The theater is a place

Where you can be someone else for a time

A moment

You can watch something serious

Or sad

Or funny

And be immersed in it

Real life? What’s that

The only real life is Mary Todd Lincoln’s obsession with cabaret and Abe Lincoln’s obsession with men and John Wilkes Booth’s obsession with Abe Lincoln

The theater is a magical place