cinema verite

i relive my youth
at the movies
pathetic
i know

leggy dames
i will never
know no
different than

the girls i
watch walk by
curving away
unglancing

while i sit
this side
of my own
invisible screen

***

"Too much drink..."


Too much drink
sprains the tongue
and bruises the brain.

The mind, crazed
with strange elixirs
runs out ahead,

the mumbling stumble
of swollen speech

tracks across a map
of dimly sensed inconsequence.