Andres Adams

Bertie Basset

Chris Coleman

Were the mainstays

Of cinema in my home town

They owned three cinemas

In the Bays Down Road

I worked at the second cinema

With Bertie’s daughter Lou

A World Without Women

Was my second feature

And starred Lou

As a deaf mute girl

Who was a talented artist

The movie played

To full houses

And clearly covered

Its expenses

There is a twenty minute

Sequence

Early in movie

Where Lou’s character

Although mute

Chats with her dog

Who is profoundly deaf

The other two cinemas

In the town

Were showing

Action thrillers

Which although popular

Were ignored

By the critics

North and South