Fade in white hot temperature      sky drops down

speaker turns on      dog barks     kid shoots

gun becomes religious symbol     T-shaped

music builds up     violinists shatter the glass

[but cannot make rent]     more machine guns

on screen     everyone is putting on lotion

sun too hot     beach is abandoned     plastic

another gunshot     followed by     car crash

then three more car crashes     virus headline

pan to an image of the american flag     pan to

an image of a hardboiled egg     teeth sink into

the white flesh of a jesus figure    who is home

less     jump cut     music builds     violinists

shiver in the hospital     a president figure

jump cut back to     a homeless jesus     licks

his lips     and walks     with a pastor who

refills his coke in a 7/11     and then is gunned

down     as all the shelves are raided     for toilet

paper     that night     is played on loop     wind

nudges a bullet off course which narrowly misses

the cowboy as insects swarm the temple     the

narrator speaks:     ‘and in the final days     everything

will fall     and few will rise     in a nation on the brink

of’      cut to white male (thirties): ‘let’s get out of here

….’ kicks open a door and lets his flame thrower rip    

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