My baby-sitter
was a born again Christian,
and a old movie fan.
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I remember she’d let us
stay up late watching the
old, black & white movies
on the UHF channels.
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And some-times
the passage of time between the
action on the screen
and our watching it on the little tv
would become too much for her,
and she would say, wistfully,
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“Do you see all those people?
They’re all burning in hell.”