Chapter Numbers

I read something that spoke to me
before and after a dream
about a book that was actually a series of movies
and I voted on one without having seen the others
no shame, that is how the world works
meaningless and then over, yah?
frequencies tune to the end of an unlit candle
radio burned tip
bringing you waxy flashes of once fiery jams
and the chapter has started
which one, you ask
it's the one after zero
and before the end.