Western Movie Theatre in Oxford, Ohio

 

There was a summer when

I felt especially alone

I was at school

Everyone else was gone

So I went to the movies

Two dollars for admission

 

For two dollars, I saw The Last Starfighter

Then on another night, Highlander

Music by Queen

Sci-fi reigned, I guess

Taking me somewhere I wasn’t,

Which at the time was really

Needful like coal

For an empty furnace

 

It’s no longer there

The theatre or the summer

I got an X from the marquee

Before everything shut down

 

C L Couch

 

 

By Michael Gäbler, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31083077

Rodgers Theatre in Poplar Bluff in Missouri. This Art Deco-style theater opened in 1949.