After You Watched Donnie Darko for the First Time

you put on that haunting song

mad world

we listened in the dark

wrapped in our legs

sitting still as the music

later, you told me that you’d been crying

but i only felt our muscles

popping and spasming, tiny flashes,

two lightning bugs

buzzing in the dark

Reviews

[ScorpioSun]

Awesome film, I think we all went to find that tune after watching it for the first time! This nicely captures the odd melancholy you can't help feeling after seeing it.

[jenniewren (J.W. Bouwma..]

ohhh what a perfect word capture of a moment.. the image of the curled up forms.. and the visceral muscle movements is just profound.

also - i did precisely the same thing i when i first saw donnie darko (and nearly every time after).. i wasn't so lucky to have a companion while doing it though