melodrama

#16

Melodrama

one by one
they vanish into the camera's dissolve
like ghosts
(and in fact that is the intent of the technical effects)

but now the effects are in my own eyes
as they watch things outside the theater
such as my aging cat
whose tail seems to swish into nothing as she rounds a corner

and I think,
when will she be dead?

then she meows annoyingly for food
as she does every night
and I think,
how can I make everything so tragically sad?

after all today you flew a kite while I ran by the bay waters
then later you kissed me and
made my favorite bread, cinnamon raisin, for a warm treat
during another movie

this time I've chosen better
it's Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
no doubt a narrative
where they know how to laugh at death

7-20-97

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