DYSTOPIAN Poem: Our Spaceship, Cinema (August 2025) , by Joel Holland

soaring, somewhere / the score and the relentless edit /
the humanity they jarred for us to unjar here / when
the hand rolls film and faces react with truth,
what was penned once somewhere on napkins,
or notepads, or software, has reached into time, and kept
something for itself / phone off, eyes locked in, mind
and heart carried out and elsewhere / magical gasps,
laughter, and overlapping senses / diet soda and buttered
popcorn, the surrender of sense, the shared passengership
of the room, the mood, lifted and lowered / the stands,
in our sights / the moon in our mind / with a ticket,
the places we’ll fly

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