Dvd - Vida

Yes. But no one pressed play today.

But time scratches the surface. The player stutters. The menu loops: Play All — Scene Selection — Return to Beginning. Dvd Vida

Here’s a short piece inspired by — which I’m interpreting as a poetic, fragmented, or code-like phrase, perhaps meaning “DVD / Life” or “life recorded.” Dvd Vida The player stutters

We were all directors once, believing we could choose the bonus features: alternate endings, deleted scenes where we stayed, commentary tracks explaining the silence. The shelf holds them in plastic cases, cracked

The shelf holds them in plastic cases, cracked spines, faded covers. Dvd Vida — not a title, but an epitaph.

Each disc, a life pressed into polycarbonate: chapter one, first breath in standard definition. chapter five, the argument paused on a smudged menu screen. chapter twelve, a laugh track where no laugh should be.

Dvd Vida — a life you can no longer rewind, only watch until the pixelation wins, until the screen goes blue-black, and the machine asks: Is this disc still in the tray?