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He loves movies.

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So much so that,
on one occasion,

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he gets engrossed
with the movie,

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believing that the fire--

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the movie burns
down, and the fire

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starts in the
behind the screen--

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and he believes that's
a part of the movie.

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So the people rescue him.

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"Poem number 11.

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When Lloyd Fetrow's
picture show burned flat,

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I was the last to
leave, uncertain where

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John Wayne ended and the
fine, bright flames began.

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And folks are not always
gentle, ripping me

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as they did from
my seat by popcorn.

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Even today, under
the arms, I can

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feel their hand-holds,
bruises, thickest thumbs.

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And with each snowfall,
the wasted popcorn

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returns, white flack upblown,
arrested, exploding the eyes.

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Later, they said they had to.

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That one second more,
and the tip of my nose

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would have gone ablaze.

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Because they said that even
a mongrel has feelings,

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and that no respectable,
God-fearing Nebraska

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town, without a fight,
lets its loony die."

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