Living In A B-Movie Poem by Dónall Dempsey

Living In A B-Movie

Rating: 4.6


You shout
& I watch your mouth
move in silence
the champagne
(it's a good champagne)

drips down
my face
from the glass
which you still hold
pointed at me
like an exclamination mark
you storm out
(grab a cab)
disappear
into the night
as I race out
grab the very next cab

& shout
in a rather theatrical voice:
'Quick - follow that cab! '
I laugh
thinking to myself
I always wanted to say that line
(but not in these circumstances
not at this time) .
Loving you was like
living in a bad B-movie!

...only always in glorious colour!
I tell the driver
how to get to your place
quicker than
you can
so that when your cab
pulls up...
there I am
flowers & champagne
in hand.

I pay off
both cabs
we laugh
kiss & make up
retire
as the end credits
roll up.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Dee Dee Wright 22 November 2007

This is just like a little movie in itself and I love the way it wraps itself up in the end with the roll of credits. Very funny and very heartwarming. A delight to read and enjoy...a perfect moment of madness! A poem that covers the breakup and then the make up in the space of a single poem. Great great fun and so loving. love Dee Dee

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Pia Andersson 11 November 2007

You show us how theatrical, silly and entertaining we can be when we are angry and upset. Its dramatic, funny and so very very true..lucky those who have a Bmovie to live in from time to time Wishing you joy Pia

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Scarlett Treat 10 November 2007

Well, for some reason, my comments on another poem that got ONED have shifted space and are now here on this poem! And that poem didn't deserve the one, either! ! But I want to comment also on LIVING IN A B-MOVIE! ! I love this poem, because it just proves that real life is where B-Movies come from. Something like this just couldn't be made up...and it is just the kind of thing a girl longs for...real love, that is, and flowers and champagne (and, darn it, you even paid off BOTH cabs! !) Be still, my heart! Awesome! !

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Dónall Dempsey

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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