Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Old Movie Halls on the Great Plains

 

Down the faded carpeting the ghosts of silver screen

Seem to tread in movie houses where the brass turns green.

Lonely little Bijous or the Roxy or the Audi –

Cobwebs camouflaging peeling paintwork once so gaudy.

Here come Stan and Ollie; over there is Harold Lloyd.

Barbara Stanwyck, Clara Bow – the queens of celluloid!

Wallace Beery shambles by, and then glides Adolph Menjou—

A breath of glory making this old firetrap again new.

These ghosts are easy to appease, as sure as you are born;

Just pour 'em out a sticky Coke, with incense of popcorn.



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