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.’
Uit:London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd
Sixth impression 1971
ISBN 0 04 808007 1