film drama is the opium of the masses

dziga vertov’s camera eye
detaches its retina –

click, whir –

a reddish yellow mass
of seething altered state

kino-kism: glowing
white-hot to-blue eye,

the whirring swallows the gray
incandescent sky

“What we remember from childhood we remember forever — permanent ghosts, stamped, imprinted, eternally seen.”

Cynthia Ozick / “The Shock of Teapots”