The Projectionist’s Nightmare

The Projectionist’s Nightmare 

This is the projectionist’s nightmare : 

A bird finds its way into the cinema, 

finds the beam, flies down it, 

smashes into a screen depicting a garden, 

a sunset and two people being nice to each other. 

Real blood, real intestines, slither down 

the likeness of a tree. 

‘This is no good,’ screams the audience, 

‘This is not what we came to see.’

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Notes to the Hurrying Man, Brian Patten

London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd

Sixth impression 1971

ISBN 0 04 808007 1