Shredded Hearts/The Chick-Flick Poem…by Robert M. Katzman
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There are
Moments in movies
Which is why
There are movies
That can crush your emotions
Like you are being
Slammed
Between
Love and Death
Shallow men
mock women
Who cry at movies
But those men, well…
They have
Hockey pucks where
Their hearts
Are supposed to be
Here are three movies which reliably
Do that to me
The destruction they do to my
Heart and mind
Are both
Welcome and dreaded
Love, loss & fear of loneliness
Strip away control
We all want to be in control
But flowing emotion
Turns my will into putty
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 “Baby Boomâ€
When dynamic single
Career Woman
Diane Keaton
Suddenly and fiercely
Realizes
The English baby girl
She unwillingly inherited
Is far too precious
To give away
To strangers
I, too
Reluctantly
Agreed to adopt
A surprise baby
I simply had no idea
How much
She meant to my wife
No idea
Why was that?
A decade later
There is no
“Adopted Babyâ€
There is only
My Daughter, Sarah
“ An Affair to Rememberâ€
Endlessly ridiculed
By men and even the movies
Themselves
When embittered
Cary Grant
Suddenly realizes
Proud and Silent
Deborah Kerr
Can’t rise to greet him
Because she’s paralyzed
He wordlessly
Slumps against a door
in a
Kaleidoscope of
Shock, pain, regret and agony
Debonair Cary Grant
Scattered across the carpet
Like fluttering confetti
I lie there with him
While icy Debra Kerr
Melts
Silently waiting for
Cary to realize she’s his life
A million
Missed Opportunities
Summed up in sixty seconds
Of Celluloid
Every lost chance to
Tell someone you loved them
But never spoken aloud
Scream Idiot!
From the screen
Lastly
“Sleepless In Seattleâ€
Which openly echoes
“Affair to Rememberâ€
with
Sarcasm and Tears
Begins with a wife
Lost to cancer
Leaving a man and boy behind
My: Father-Mother-Sister
All died from cancer
I, too am left behind
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  “Sleeplessâ€
Doesn’t make me wait
When the weeping
Violin strings conjure up
“Loves Affair’sâ€
Theme
I am already dissolving
My atoms freely
Mixing with
Seattle’s endless rain
These three movies remind me:
Men
Worry about Tomorrow
Women
Worry about Forever
Sometimes
IÂ need to remember that
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