PALACE
The RKO Keith's in Flushing
Was once a movie palace
A golden place where you could
Forget the outside world
When I was thirteen or fourteen
I went with my sister
And her boyfriend
To see the The Towering Inferno there
Shortly the lights went dark
The curtains opened
And before we knew it
We were inside
A burning office building
With Paul Newman and
Steve McQueen
For a few hours
We became lost
In the world presented
On the giant screen
Not an opportunity
To eat bad popcorn and
Drink Coca-Cola
But a chance to
Indulge our imagination
The Towering Inferno is
Mostly now forgotten
And sadly so are movie palaces
Like the RKO Keith's
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