#786: An American Sonnet after the Billie Eilish Concert Film

For a 1:40 showing on a Monday,
I sat alone, the only person inside
the neighborhood multiplex, theater #8,
to watch the Billie Eilish concert film.
No 3D available here, I watched
it binocularly, with my own glasses.
Even without stereoscopy, I was still moved
by the spectacle, the music, the magnitude
of it all, the tears streaming down faces.
Thousands of young women in the arena
wept as they sang along to all the words,
words many believe had saved their lives.
What spell are they under? Billy Eilish:
a mirror in which her fans can see themselves.