travesty

the beautiful people on screen
walk and talk and laugh
and seem to face the struggles
that you do too and yet
they somehow do not reflect
their houses all so fine
and their features all well placed
even all their tears attended
with such poise and grace
and the cast is all one shade
and the men take center stage
even in the film about a woman
of a certain age and yet it's acted
very well and so it's easy to ignore
the little things that make you
forget it well before you even
make it to the door and you
wonder at the cost that went into
the production and the other scripts
they overlooked and you leave with
the deduction that the travesty
is not in the story that they tell
but that the studio decided
that other stories wouldn't sell