The Iowa Review
Volume 1
Issue 4 Fall
1970
Saturday Afternoon at the Movies
John Logan
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Article 8
AT
AFTERNOON
SATURDAY
THE
MOVIES
are badder
Movies
than ever
in San Francisco.
Man, if you wish to go,
then perhaps you should
to what a midwestern
listen
buff has to say:
They
showed nude girls before
(crotch shots looming up near)
and, usually on alternate days,
they showed nude guys.
Next
ow
they let the naked
to ball
pretend
(rather
fell
softly)
thewildly
frenzied, faking girl.
But some of these
amateurs
could
not help taking their scenes
harder than they were told.
So now
there's
no
pretense?
and, hence, this melancholy
singing.
Frisco's dirty flicks are really into something!
sixty nine.
Fucking, blowing,
And, che sera
sera
let whatever
comes,
come.
is I'm not at all at ease
Trouble
with the technicolored
surfacing
sentimental music piped behind.
is
Trouble
the patterning
is not
of pubic
of sperm,
hairs
abstract.
is inside the cunt
Trouble
I see more than a hint
of a human face
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hooded, primitive, unfinished.
And there's a face in the head
of the erect
cock. A
changing face rolls
in the balls
as
a further
they make
a
Also
face at the breast
thrust.
that will
gather
the eye or
the little
nose of the
tough
nipple.
There's another, more hairy
round
in the man's
face
chest.
Or in the back of the caress
ing hand,
the hollows
of the thighs.
And
there is this
always
face
in the face.
For our conscience
in the mirror
views
itself
of the flesh.
Saturday
afternoon
at
the movies.
A far cry from the
in Red Oak,
Grande Theatre
the porn
Shit. With
there's
not
So what
even
any
Iowa.
popcorn.
should a boy
from the Iowa farm
do when
he finds himself in San
at a
film?
pornographic
I
Well,
guess
he should just face the facts
and get his ass home.
Francisco
Logan