A Story
  
        As you read this silent work,
        imagine you are young,
        you decide what age.

        Imagine it to be in rural,
        you decide the state and county,
        and it is hot inside your home.

        Image your neighbor invites,
        you choose the number of community
        members to his house.

        Imagine that he has hung a white sheet
        on the wall of his white farmhouse
        and has chairs in rows for the audience.

        You have come to watch a movie.
        It is the silent film:
        The Great Train Robbery.

        Imagine there is no pianist,
        theater organist, or orchestra
        to play music.

        Think of it as your first movie–
        ever, and you are excited.
        You must be excited.

        When the steam powered train comes,
        picture the smoke rising
        and trailing behind it.

        Imagine a big man,
        you picture him,
        on a white stallion.

        He rides up, unseen,
        he is drunk, you figure how
        you know that…

        He pulls out his pistol,
        and shoots the robber
        on the screen.

        The movie is stopped.
        The man has never seen a movie before.
        He says he is on his way

        to the Sin Lot,
        and you are left
        to figure out why.