[Douglas G. Brown]

It has been brutally cold for the last week here. So, I have been staying indoors and watching VHS tapes and DVD's of old movies, which I had picked up for a buck each at a flea market this past summer. I have discovered why they were so cheap. So, my target of choice is Hollywood:

BOX OFFICE BOMBS

Box office bombs which were Hollywood’s worst
(Cinema’s progress abruptly reversed);
Terrible movies the public had cursed,
Like “Heaven’s Gate”.

Four dismal hours of tedious trash,
Black hole for forty-four million in cash;
Wrecking careers with a thundering crash;
Such was its fate.

Bleeding red ink like show business blood,
Critically panned as a miserable dud;
This bomb went the way of all Tinseltown crud;
Late-night T.V.

Now, to recover a million at least;
Like the revenge of some mythical beast,
Old box office bombs all get re-released
On D.V.D.