Cinema Orgasmica

 

heaven is a downtown movie theater

                        on two dollars a day

 

its vertical neon marquee

            a cinephile pest strip

drawing movie house phantoms

to die elegant deaths

            under colored klieg lights

 

in the moist body cologne of the auditorium

steamed hot dogs

                        buttered popcorn

hang in the fog banks of

weed drifting down from the balcony

                                    like laughs

                                    like moans

                                    like audio commentary

 

black momma/white momma put five

                        on the black hand side for us

 

sent us: Ashy and Afro-sheen'd

to an uptown saturday night green pastured

house of cinema repute

that serves nite train on tap

& screens master of the flying guillotine

            with norman, is that you

 

in the bedroom dimness within

it's cornbread, earl & me

with abby, & carrie, claudine & coffy

            testing our senses for the first time

in the dark

 

discerning the subtleties

on the tongue

            between cherry & strawberry

& learning how true angel food

is a buttered nipple of popcorn

softening to submission         between

your lips

 

with each rubber soled step

back from the lobby

the floor tears loud as a crypt

                        door pried open

 

on the last house on the left

on the house of the seven corpses

on the house that dripped blood

 

pouring libation of milk

duds and raisinettes

we call the names