LINDA BARRETT - MY FAVORITE MOVIE

Linda Barrett has been writing all of her life. she started out writing her own little stories in so many notebooks. Her work is featured in the horror magazine, Night to Dawn and Scarlet Leaf. she also puts up her poetry on her company's break room wall. Ms. Barrett lives in Abington, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia.

​My Favorite Movie

​come along with me
     and sit right down
     to watch my favorite movie
     I watch it every time
     it comes on T.V.
     I don't care how bad it is
     Because it always
     makes me blissfully happy
     If it's on Super 8, Beta, VHS or DVD
     I'll still buy it 
     Even if I have spend 
     every hard-earned penny
     If its deeply sublime
     or incredibly obscene
     my eyes will relish it 
     scene by scene by scene
     I'll cheer with the heroes
     and spur them on and again
     all the while sneering at the villians
     At every funny part,
     I'll laugh until I sigh
     And at every sad part,
     I still break down and cry
     I laugh at the comedy's zingers
     And with the musicals,
     I dance with the singers
     All the characters and the actors
     Always become my friends
     I'll sit there for hours,
     waiting until it ends
     I'll awefully gasp
     at its special effects
     or cheerfully cherish
     its production defects
     I listen to every line
     of its dialogue
     I don't care 
     if it comes from 
     a famous actor
     or a trained, wild hog
     I'll watch its plot 
                                                again and again
                                               I don't care if 
                                           Shakespeare wrote it
                                  or some functional illiterate
                                      with a cheap fountain pen
                                              My favorite movie
                                           could tell any story
                                      from an Epic from History
                                                to one of those
                                              B-movie Mysteries
                                           I don't care if it's
                                 in Cinerama or black and white
                                      It could be in letter box
                                           or even pan and scan
                                           But it won't stop me
                                               from watching it
                                                      all night
                                             I don't care if it
                                     find it in the supermarket
                                     or watch it on basic cable
                                              I'll take the day
                                                off to watch it
                                                    if I'm able
                                                 Like women and
                                                 fine old wine,
                                              my favorite movie
                                             always gets better
                                                     and better
                                                     every time
                                            Critics and friends
                                                  may not agree
                                                   but this is 
                                       my favorite movie to me.