Version 2

In melodrama
a word may stretch across three emotions

ask the chatbot to describe for you some articles

of emperors’ clothes

The audience thinks they’re full partners in conversation

where thinking means dreaming

Later we learn half the script was cut

what remained neglected
to mention

these are transcripts from documentary film

One of a special forces unit

testifying to its own criminality

before the real celebrity

judge stands up

In photography single snowflakes

fluttering past the street lamp

appear as streaks