Pansies (Lawrence)/When I Went to the Film—
WHEN I WENT TO THE FILM———
When I went to the film, and saw all the black-and-white feelings that nobody felt,
and heard the audience sighing and sobbing with all the emotions they none of them felt,
and saw them cuddling with rising passions they none of them for a moment felt,
and caught them moaning from close-up kisses, black-and-white kisses that could not be felt,
it was like being in heaven, which I am sure has a white atmosphere
upon which shadows of people, pure personalities
are cast in black and white, and move
in flat ecstasy, supremely unfelt,
and heavenly.
and heard the audience sighing and sobbing with all the emotions they none of them felt,
and saw them cuddling with rising passions they none of them for a moment felt,
and caught them moaning from close-up kisses, black-and-white kisses that could not be felt,
it was like being in heaven, which I am sure has a white atmosphere
upon which shadows of people, pure personalities
are cast in black and white, and move
in flat ecstasy, supremely unfelt,
and heavenly.