'Film is twenty-four
truths per second'

Jean-Luc Godard
Twenty-four times per second
I run away from myself something comes
toward me says: I

run away am snapped
up in the pictures
which are running a massacre
every movement a turning
while sleeping in twenty-four
pieces per second hours
the day cut to pieces a strained
voice the soundtrack says: I

have lost my way cannot see
the film for all the pictures
the standstill see myself moved
by twenty-four snapshots
per second hand
stuffed into my mouth: life

hurts Madame take a bite.

translated by Andrew Shields