The Moon is Sinking Fast

Here's one product of the film found poem I mentioned here:

Found Poetry Concept

Each stanza is taken directly from the list, in order to preserve the natural narratives.
With movies being nothing more than stories, I thought it was interesting how each stanza seems to give birth to it's own sort of tiny story.  It's only a glimpse, but my mind tries to fill in the blanks of each line, to explain why a character would be saying these things.  I'm actually very fond of the result.


The Moon is Sinking Fast
 

They were off my path, so I never dared

Well, you’re going to have to decide

What’s more important, baby?

Well, this is inhuman—even for you

It’s not quite what I expected

Hey, don’t ask me about my life

I travel light, only the barest essentials

Come back

Are you paying attention?

His parents died last year

Hey, let me read that

You seriously don’t think I did this?

I love you.

Over here

That’d be the one

What are you doing here?

I’m lucky to have you

Stop the cars

It’s going to be okay

Come on, don’t talk about it

Is that a threat?

You seriously don’t think that qualifies you as a certified prodigy?

That wasn’t an accident

What makes you think they’re even from here?

We’ve got to present this properly

We are not dead

Are you recording?

Some advice about keeping secrets: it’s a lot easier if you don’t know them in the first place

Too much?

These children are starving

Her arms aren’t swinging—she’s carrying something

Put your arms behind your back