You Take My Hand
You Take My Hand - meaning Summary
Cinematic Addiction to Romance
The speaker compares a relationship to a bad movie they cannot stop watching. Cinematic images—slow-motion waltz, smoke, melted celluloid, popcorn—frame a pattern of attraction, repetition, and compulsion. The tone is wry and resigned as the speaker recognizes themselves as an addict who stays for the ending despite discomfort. The poem captures fascination, entrapment, and the uneasy pleasure of returning to a familiar, flawed spectacle.
Read Complete AnalysesYou take my hand and I'm suddenly in a bad movie, it goes on and on and why am I fascinated We waltz in slow motion through an air stale with aphrodisms we meet behind the endless ptted palms you climb through the wrong windows Other people are leaving but I always stay till the end I paid my money, I want to see what happens. In chance bathtubs I have to peel you off me in the form of smoke and melted celluloid Have to face it I'm finally an addict, the smell of popcorn and worn plush lingers for weeks
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