In “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis,”
there is only one movie playing in town,
The Monster Who Devoured Cleveland.
It has two sequels:
the Bride of, followed by
the Son of.
In one episode, all three titles appear
on the marquee of the Cascade Theater
as a “TRIPLE HORROR FEATURE.”
We read nuclear family structure from the marquee:
the monster that devoured Cleveland
took a bride and had a son,
the natural order of things,
as family will out
on any scale,
even rendered as the literal
maker of monstrosity
we know it to be.
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