Warm popcorn and cold
soda, heated seats and fun
fans. Roll the movies!
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Poetry by Wade Kwon
haiku for 9/20/2023
Warm popcorn and cold
soda, heated seats and fun
fans. Roll the movies!
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haiku for 8/9/2023
haiku for 6/25/2023
Can a critic who
hates the work offer a good,
fair-minded review?
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haiku for 4/13/2023
Why bother with the
pricy theater when we
can watch on streaming?
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haiku for 1/20/2023
The franchise, in its
seventh decade, plows ahead
with more fun and shock.
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haiku for 12/26/2022
haiku for 8/12/2022
The cardboard cutouts
stood ready to glamorize
modest mundane lives.
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haiku for 7/25/2022
One good thing about
seeing movies high is not
caring how it ends.
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haiku for 6/16/2021
“The movies are like
a machine that generates
empathy.” — Ebert
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haiku for 5/22/2021
Long past a double
feature, late into the night
and next day, they watched.
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