Poetry- Losing Yourself in a Movie by Ananya Gondesi

2 hours sounds good

I think to myself

I start

Ok that guy is pretty cute

Wait what’s going on

I clutch onto my blanket one second but I’m fine the next

My ears are filling too quickly with beautiful sounds of a score

My eyes are pushed into a dream world

Man she’s pretty

She’s going to get the guy

I think it’s going to be another happily ever after

15 minutes in and I finally see a person of color

Typical

There is way too much tension right now

My brain is stimulated

I feel like stopping and looking up the names of all of the actors I think my mom just walked in

Of course she comes at the most awkward part

Wow guys make room for jesus

They definitely cannot stay together

Well she didn’t have to go do that

Of course they’re going to fight now

Great it’s only been an hour and i think i need to pee

Ooh maybe I should make popcorn

Ok popcorn is done, now movie time

Can we get some backstory for this token person of color?

Would you look at that, they’re gone now

Man why are there tears coming to my eyes right now

I want that to happen to me

It’s not fair

It doesn’t have to be like this

Please just tell her how you feel

Please

Please don’t leave this

10 minutes left? But they still have a lifetime to go

I can feel the tears dripping to my chin

Don’t leave her

Don’t leave me please

Please

I have to turn this off

There’s no way there’s an after credits scene

Nope, just sat through all of those credits for no reason

Oh my the popcorn’s all of the blanket

I need to wash my face before my family sees and starts making fun of me

There’s no doubt i’m going to watch all the interviews

Learn all about the actors

Bother my friends and everyone around me about the movie

Write stuff down about it

Get inspired by it

And then revisit it in about a month to have the same experience over again