ART CINEMA

As a child
two cowboy movies
for fifty cents
at the Pilgrim,
at my adolescence
the porno
dealers took it over
and sailors
from the wharf
came in,
followed by
others cruising
for sailors,
no more Pilgrim
or Puritans,
then I turned
to art films
neo realist films
from Post war Italy,
Pasolini, Fellini
and Bergmann's
journey from
a faithless time,
enjoying anti-
fascist movies
being partisan
rooting for the partisans,
non parasan,
then film noirs
of Hitchcock,
watching old musicals
in watery technicolor
of Esther Williams,
followed by
sex and race films
then Disney animation
finally swallowed up by
cheap double bills.