Ok...So Maybe We'Re Not The Best Movie Reviewers! Poem by Dónall Dempsey

Back row of the cinema.
We can’t keep our eyes
off of
each other.

We can’t keep our hands
off of
each other.
We are all
over
each other.
So, sue us!
The popcorn sweetly spills...
...the spilt Coke fizzles!

My fingertips
find a nipple
that was looking for me
in the dark
Your hand grasps
what it was you were
looking for!
Our mouths
kiss & kiss & kiss

as if they were
little alien creatures
independent
of us
our tongues
little flames
flickering
with snake-like desire
Even the movie
stops
to have a look at us.

The celluloid people
gasp:
“So, that’s how it’s really
done! ”
“What I wouldn’t give to be
flesh & blood! ”
We keep going
through a second showing.

Don’t stop
even for Pearl & Dean!
When asked
we tell friends:
“That long boring film in Outer Mongolian? ”
“Oh...it was great fun! ”