setting the bar low

your ten dollar ticket,
five dollar box
of stale pop corn
and three dollar
box of candy, your
four dollar soda, or
water, and the movie
stinks, you feel like
you've seen it before,
maybe a dozen times.
the special effects,
the cliche lines
and jokes and scenarios.
and yet everyone seems
to love it, and are
having a grand time.
you wonder, is it
you. is it the world
we live in now. are
we settling for this.
has the whole world
become a wal-mart full
of marshmallow bags
of peanuts and fried
chicken. bad art, bad
acting, bad writing.
you know the answer
to that, but refuse
to accept it.