Not A Moment To Feel Pain

I have sometimes clicked through a video
frame by frame taking an hour to watch
some acting business moment by moment.

Very often a beautiful girl’s face
will be frozen in some weird expression
that looks absurd but you don’t notice it
because it’s a flash viewed at normal speed.

Very often someone’s graceful motion
will be frozen in some weird position
that looks awkward but you don’t notice it
because it’s a flash viewed at normal speed.

We see these things but we don’t notice them.

These odd moments are absolutely real
and for hundreds of years painters saw them
but painters of all schools rejected them.

Video doesn’t reject anything.

I wonder about the endless ugly
stalking around outside us and in us.

We see so much painters would never paint.

There is a monster moving very fast.

It’s eating us but it’s moving so fast
there’s no time not a moment to feel pain.

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