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Repeated watches

What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times?

TV: Fringe, Suits, Lost, Film: Citizen Kane, Arrival, The Godfather I & 2 , Edge of Tomorrow, Now you see Me, Avatar, District 9, The Three Muskateers (1973) Skyfall, Tristram Shandy (A Cock and Bull Story) Gladiator, The Parent Trap, Master and Commander, 2001, 2010, Blade Runner Staeship Troopers Repo Man Robocop Budapest Grand Hotel Goodfellas, Empire Strikes Back

BALLOON

BALLOON

you shot
down a balloon

you shot down
a star
      went
supernova

took all
  you had
shot down
to
  Area 51
Studio 54

you shoot everything
down that
        strays into
your backyard

just now
    I felt
gated, hemmed in,
surveyed and
controlled

am getting
pretty nervous
about that
    trigger finger

seem to
    have got yourself
an impossible
totally spacious
                    fully inter-
continental
      marshaling back
                            yard

ENDGAME

ENDGAME

this is where it all ends
this is where my poem ends

every microcosm got
its King, got its Emperor
without their cast
iron rule
the Sun get sallow
the Sun get sick

every silver cloud could
be bringing rescue
deliver deus ex
machina

task force of the gods sent
to restore the power
of one-eyed man

and libraries within libraries
secret texts coded and
cross-
referring

I read
my name and number there
before I got
taken out

all these crevices
strung between
light
and its shadow

wondering what the abyss saw
when it looked into me and you

having come thus far
having loyally and
dutifully
travelled with me

what might you conclude
if this is where
it all begins?

GO FIGURE

GO FIGURE!

was in Heaven enjoying the brand name
slurping bubbling carbonated cola
through a golden straw

thinking of all
the people in my life
whose names I no longer remember
(don’t feel bad, or alone:
I no longer remember my own)

did they make the cut?
hey who the hell knows?
it’s all
immaterial

but life
lounging by the soda fountain
is not so cool — albeit eternal
when
stripped of all its chemicals
devoid of its additives

seems whoever is in
charge of censorship here

is letting me
express some alternative ideas

a bit of a blow to those
it must be
sacrificed themselves
for
Holy conformity, divine
regimentation

go figure!