Memory, Movies

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 " There's no fence 

nor hedge

 around time that is

 gone.  

You can go back 

and have 

what you like

 of it,

 if you can 

remember. "

How Green Was My Valley (1941)

 “ I find

 that the further I go

 back,
the better

 things were,
 whether they

 happened
 or not.”

 Mark Twain

 “Strangely enough,
 this is the past
 that somebody

 in the future
 is longing
 to go back to”

 Ashleigh Brilliant 

 
   “ I can't go back

 to yesterday -
 because I was

 a different person

 then ”

 Lewis Carroll

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Just as music does,

or a book we once loved,

movies take us

back in time

to the person we were

when we met them.

I just watched

'The Bird Man Of Alcatraz'

with Burt Lancaster.

Saw it in the theater.

Back then, when choosing,

a film, one might ask:

"Is it color, or black & white?"

This film is black and white.

The film is also 50 years old!

[ Cue up the 

'flashback memory music' ]

We went to the movies

all the time when I was young.

Dad had been a projectionist

in WWII.

Other dads flew bombers,

mine showed movies.

Seeing a scene

that I saw,

when younger than 10,

the 'Me' of today

watched the 'Me'

I was back then.

What would I tell

that child,

now that I am

both at once, 

all through the

 magic of film?

I remember the car

we had then,

the smell of the rain

riding home in the dark.

Dad was young & strong,

loved & feared,

but riding with him

felt safe

from the mysterious

big wild world

out there.

Watching movies

with dead people:

Dad and child-me.

How can 50 years

 take so long,

yet pass so fast?

Back then I yearned,

and wondered; 

Today I have memories

and know.

Yearning is turning

seasons change,

as I look back

 with tears

that are sweeter

than laughter.

Know what I mean?

 

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