SITTING IN ART MOVIE HOUSE

Alone in the art movie theater
eating pop corn and m and m's
for three days of a blizzard
with my college uncle Nat
a student at the New School
and projectionist
who became a director
and executive in L.A.
when he was older
watching accompanied
by Tuesday Weld
and Frankie Avalon in
"I'll take Sweden"
then remembering being
transfixed by the sunshine
after the storm was over
and outside the waterfront
eating at a French cafe
filet of sole and fries
hearing fog horns and tugboats
harboring coasting rocks
the ocean literally
started to sing
and for being a boy
without complaints
was taken to Sweden
by Uncle Nat as a gift
at that time for Christmas.