Blockbuster Life

They used to hark

from beyond our imaginations;

on television screens hooked

to the VCR - bombs, rubble

and the specter of death

callously strewn

on unfamiliar streets.

Innocent past-times

rolling out imagined pain

stripped out, off reality.

Not anymore.

Not when we can play

televised Nero dancing

to the haunting sight

of blockbuster

imaginations

coming home.