Ben Nardolilli
Big Apple Showtimes
Down by the pier they’re showing
American Graffiti,
those who want to write it now are banned
from letting loose with spray cans,
anyways, the ride to the pier
is too long for them to tag the screen, they live
in parental rent-controlled apartments
among the cop colonized projects
On the Waterfront? That’s showing uptown
around midtown at Bryant Park,
not a longshoreman in sight,
and the only criminals in the field
will be stealing out of picnic baskets,
or carrying around spontaneous pharmacies
to help film aficionados
numb the pain of focusing on the screen