How to Watch a Bad Movie
There is an art to enjoy bad movies, A way to abstract perfect stills From tawdry plots and dead dialogue: Raindrops beating on the heroine’s face – You can bracket this, cut away the edges Of the hackneyed scene; you can travel far On the montage of a lonesome highway To the shot of the runaway lovers. The art is to detach from plot and words, The absurd clichés muted by the will, Life itself removed, a clumsy interlude. It’s all yours now, stirred in the alembic Of half-dreams, a movie within a movie, This fine art of late night...
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