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written after watching I Saw the TV Glow and falling in love with a movie, and remembering how long it has been since I have fallen in love with watching a movie.

Reel'ing'

Into the edge of adrift
time shrinks as the glowing
spectrum pans and shifts
i want to feel friendly with
the screen again
i want to feel the fuzzy static
embrace me
like arms made of out dozens
of freshly hatched chickadees
warm around my chest
like jet addled water 
outside the leaves flutter
like channels in the airways
its getting dark earlier in the day
i want to like watching movies
again
so i watch them more than once
it feels like sin, like a scratch on a disc
skipping through limited screentime
just to reconnect 
with actors and good direction
i don't want to turn it off but yet i
see the faint gloam of my own reflection
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