Old Time Movies

Those grainy flecks on the black and white flick
jump about like fleas on a trampoline
but don't distract us from the scenes.

Capture our attention with a little burlesque show
give us some slapstick to make us laugh out loud
with rapid jerky movements and obscure organ music.

For excitement offer us extreme close-ups
of handsome men with rakish grins and dark mustaches
and women with silky skin and long wavy hair.

No words but lots of melodrama
eyeliner to accentuate their emotion
delivered through those haunting eyes.

We'll sit back in a dark theater
go to places far away, to social situations
we'd never know except as shown on the screen.

We’ll line-up for tickets early
to be entertained for an hour or so
from Metropolis to Dracula
Keystone Cops and Valentino

Invite us with your sixty second trailers
we'll come to old time movies
on every other weekend.