When the movie theatre closed
we decided to stay.
It was depressing, at first,

Model C-24,
developed exclusively for us
by a team of expert engineers

I took the trip just to try it
in spite of warnings from friends
about over-cooked borsht, dreary

The Man With the Lepidoptera on His Ass

stands, face to the wall,
butterfly to the camera, needled
back there forty years ago.

started from unpretentious beginnings
and hasn't, in fact, come very far along—
still occupies the back wall of the bedroom,