Director's Cut OR Feeding Imagination in 3D Stereo Surround

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I don’t know about you but some movies (especially gay movies) have had me wriggling in my seat...with more than just wishful thinking...!

DIRECTOR’S CUT or FEEDING IMAGINATION IN 3D STEREO SURROUND

A heat’s on, dripping

from the screen; sweet seduction,

as a celluloid carnality

slips into sub-reality mode,

sure to get under the skin

of what passes for conventional

identity

Brushing a stranger’s thighs

in a hard seat, weaving dangerous lies,

in a cold sweat…

Movie lovers doing okay, 

their wonders to perform, overt sexuality

turning blue buffs on before and after

the lights go down;

Day returns to Babylon

outside office hours; madding crowd

booking into film theatres

(alias Smith and Jones) always up

for the best lines,

leading roles, directing the action, 

soul for soul

Close shot: penetration,

ecstasy (love’s rolling stone)

Beautiful people, amen.

Small sacrifice, a tell-tale stain

on integrity’s underwear

(will clean) - Cinema’s jest,

illusion

Copyright R. N. Taber 2000; rev. 2013

[Note: An earlier version of this poem appears in  Love and Human Remains by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2001.]