As I walk around my grandma’s house,
past the kitchen that smells of cornbread
and the guest room that used to be my father’s,
I stop at the little room on the left.
I rustle through the dusty storage bins,
until I find the VHS cassettes.
I reminisce on the adventures
those awkwardly sized black boxes led me on as a child.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Shrek the movie,
Toy Story, Mary Poppins, Kronk’s New Groove,
those are the movies I grew up on.
Not the Hangover, not Paranormal Activity,
and not Project X.
Bring back the classics on VHS

Long forgotten,
those poor VHS tapes
used to be all the rave.
Now they just sit in a box,
and rot.

Listen to the tape as it winds back up,
faster and faster the closer it gets.
If your heart starts racing,
it’s normal,
SNAP
done.
Rewinding VHS tapes
used to be so much fun.

What’s that little, black plastic box?
That thing can play movies?
Why not just buy it on iTunes?