In a movie theater we all stare straight ahead
And wait for something to happen.
Some need to be fulfilled,
Others just want to be accepted.
I think we’ve all seen this one before.
It stars that insatiable hunger for what is yet to come,
Directed by that unintelligible twitch in our brain
Which says ‘things should be better than this.’
We don’t stop watching though.
We keep laughing and reciting the lines,
Hoping their promises will be kept.
Maybe they’re making a sequel?
In the end, we all chase our shiny pennies.
We’ve been promised fish but given snakes.

Turri 4/16/11

Painting above by Frederick Nitsch

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