Nostalgia Film Poems

Steal James Dean's car
Paint it
Marlboro Red
Marina Blue
Cocaine White
Slip down and cruise the coast
Skip town on the drop of a dime
1955 Porsche 550 Spyder in the...

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When I was in my teens
Hollywood set the scene;
Powerful producers called the shots
On manufactured landscaped lots,
Adventure,humour excitement
In simple wholsome movie plots-
Hayward and Mature
Wayne & westerns..for...

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How I love those movies of old
Stan & Ollie were slapstick gold
Harold the stuntman, extraordinaire
Fred & Ginger were dancing on air

MGM's lion had a powerful...

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Almost evening.
The smell of seaweed hanging
on whispers coming up from the beach.
I sit in the backyard, rearranging thoughts,
trying to fit shapes into what's missing 
in...

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Say

You know what they call a burger
in the future

What

I can't believe it's not a burger

Because it ain't got no meat or
cheese in it

It's a bun...

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In black and white days
When glamour and romance
Were steeped in vogue
Emanating style
Elegant ladies robed in satin
Glamorous and opulent 
Between their fingers held
Cigarettes in holders
of ivory...

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Richard Burton
       was uncertain
     if Liz Taylor cried

     Fred Astaire
 ...

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Wrinkled shirt in the sink
  Cups in the bathtub -- clink, clink
Shoes in the freezer, under the meat
  Stockings in the fridge --...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Whar art mine fervent zeal for Marx Brothers?

While figuratively trout fishing
for ideas to write about
analogous (hook, line and sinker)
idea wormed itself into mind with clout
moment...

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FANTASY FLICKS
When I was in my teens
Hollywood set the scene;
On manufactured landscaped lots,
In simple wholesome movie plots-
Each Saturday standing in a queue..
Awaiting escape ..to somewhere...

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There's a spot on the horizon
In the ripple of the sun
Where railway lines and stanchions fuse
And merge, becoming one.

I was staring from the platform
When a...

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Something touched me long ago in black-and-white old movies
   The sight of someone sitting down, and just before she ate
Folding hands and saying...

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Howard ...
          I wish I'd known you
         ...

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Lyrics from a song,
A chapter of a book,
A certain scent,
Could be all it took.
A scene in a film,
Lines from a play,
A walk in the park,
On...

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