Closed-Captioning

Movie fantastic:
Watching real life unfolding,
Senses enlivened.

An unwanted change;
Video signal goes blank,
Audio remains.

Still captivating, 
Listening to audio:
Movie fantastic.

Video returns:
Brief interludes side by side;
Pulse quickens and skips.

Signal cut again,
Audio also is lost;
Movie fantastic.

Now closed-captioning
Only signal that remains.
Relationship strained?

With no video,
No audio, still I'm sure:
Movie fantastic. 

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