Moviegoers
By Sam Watermeier It's nice to click on Netflix and curl up on the couch. But we want to get swept away and gaze at the silver screen the same way a child looks up at a blanket of stars. We want to ride our bikes across the face of the moon and pass through space and time. This poem was previously published in Issue 58 of 34th Parallel Magazine . About the Writer: Ever since his mother went into labor with him in a movie theater, Sam Watermeier has been growing as a film fanatic, journalism junkie, literature lover and music maven. For several years, he served as an arts and entertainment reporter for the Indianapolis publication, NUVO Newsweekly , and his writing has appeared in other print and online journals, including The Film Yap , Midwest Film Journal , THiNK Magazine and The Polk Street Review . He lives in Broad Ripple, Indiana with the lovely Jenn Marie, the co-founder of In Verse. They ha...
