Human the Death Dance

[00:16.70] On the face of her phone
[00:19.48] Wileen programs a message to herself
[00:21.35] so that when the alarm clock rings
[00:23.12] the screen flashes:
[00:24.90] EVERY DAY IS ONE DAY LESS.
[00:27.65] EVERY DAY IS ONE DAY LESS.
[00:31.21] Jordan.
[00:32.17] Jordan tattoos the words
[00:33.01] FORGIVE ME
[00:33.97] in thick black letters
[00:34.88] down the inside of his arm
[00:36.69] so that when he looks at his wrist
[00:37.67] he will remember not to hate himself so much.
[00:42.10] What he keeps forgetting
[00:43.93] is that there is life after survival.
[00:49.31] After Dave left
[00:50.21] Mary started sticking her face
[00:52.08] between the film projector
[00:53.00] and the movie screen
[00:53.95] so that when the credits roll
[00:54.85] she still gets to be somebody.
[00:59.35] Whenever Tara's past comes back she mashes
[01:01.15] chalk into the sidewalk
[01:02.98] until her knuckles bleed.
[01:03.82] She scribbles and scrapes
[01:05.62] scribbles and scrapes
[01:06.53] till the words take shape
[01:07.48] and this is what they say
[01:09.23] I wanna die muther****ers
[01:12.00] die DIE muther****ers
[01:12.92] hold tight if I love ya
[01:14.74] cause it might not last long.
[01:16.58] Y'all, we're all gonna die.
[01:23.87] That's the exciting part.
[01:26.55] It's learning how to live for a living,
[01:29.29] that's the tricky stitch.
[01:31.93] Just ask Denise
[01:32.87] whose family taught her when she came into this world
[01:35.56] that Family equals Love
[01:38.35] so Denise took that **** seriously
[01:41.03] but after a lifetime of craving acceptance from their cruelty
[01:44.65] she now finds herself jamming Polaroid pictures of these people into her typewriter
[01:50.04] and pounding out the last letter of the word mercy
[01:51.90] over and over and over again.
[01:53.76] She strikes the key Y.
[01:54.67] Y Y Y Y Y?
[01:57.31] The answer?
[01:58.28] The answer comes in the form of a handwritten letter from the moon.
[02:02.75] It reads:
[02:03.61] This is brutally beautiful.
[02:07.33] So are we.
[02:08.22] This is endless.
[02:10.97] So are we.
[02:13.69] We can heal this.
[02:17.29] Signed,
[02:19.19] Crater Face
[02:20.02] P.S. See me for who I am.
[02:20.94] We've got work to do.
[02:24.58] But my father
[02:25.46] he didn't read moon
[02:27.24] he didn't speak moon
[02:29.00] and he didn't write moon
[02:30.00] so there was no letter found next to his body in the garage
[02:31.93] when he chose to leave this place on purpose
[02:34.69] without saying where he was goin' or why.
[02:37.46] There are still days you can catch me
[02:40.13] tape recording eternal silence
[02:41.91] and playing it backwards for an empty room
[02:44.62] so I can listen to his dieing wish
[02:46.49] shh.
[02:49.27] Yes,
[02:51.95] it's true,
[02:53.74] the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree,
[03:00.01] but my family tree
[03:02.75] was in an orchard on a hill
[03:03.70] that rolled me to the river
[03:05.58] and that river
[03:06.46] ripped me through the rapids
[03:07.38] and those rapids
[03:08.24] rushed me into this moment
[03:10.08] right here right now
[03:10.92] with you
[03:11.85] at the mouth.
[03:12.76] This is my church.
[03:14.51] And if church is a house of healing
[03:16.35] hallelujah welcome
[03:18.15] come in as you are
[03:20.03] have a look around
[03:20.98] stay out of the porn.
[03:27.24] There are massive stacks of bad choices in my backyard.
[03:32.69] Haven't finished cleaning the place up
[03:35.42] but I'm workin' on it
[03:36.34] and clearly I have not yet reached enlightenment
[03:37.28] for more than a fleeting moment
[03:38.15] but I'm tryin'
[03:39.03] and I found somethin' here I want ya to have.
[03:39.93] It's not much
[03:40.88] just a story
[03:41.75] but it's all I've got
[03:43.55] so take it.
[03:45.37] It's called Dillon.
[03:48.02] Dillon's drug of choice was more
[03:50.71] so Dillon took more
[03:51.61] and more and more and more
[03:52.64] until the day he woke up
[03:53.56] babbling in a pool of his own traffic jam
[03:56.22] realizing he was killing off the best parts of himself
[03:59.82] and claiming he could read peoples' skin.
[04:02.53] When Dillon looked down at his heart flap
[04:03.41] the skin read Boy, go find your spine and ride it outta here.
[04:08.07] Wileen's gut said Day 1.
[04:09.82] Jordan's arms were FULLY FORGIVEN.
[04:13.43] Mary's face: The Endless.
[04:15.23] Tara's knuckles: Healing.
[04:17.08] Denise's fingertip said see?
[04:19.76] And my smile
[04:22.59] Dillon said my smile it said Fix it
[04:23.35] so I came here to the mouth of the river
[04:26.19] to look at my own reflection in the moonlight
[04:28.87] and see what it says for myself
[04:30.68] down my whole body
[04:32.48] where it is written
[04:33.30] in the skin
[04:35.23] says
[04:36.17] P.S.
[04:37.06] See me for who I am.
[04:37.96] We've got work to do.
[04:38.81] As for Crater Face,
[04:40.64] I don't speak for that guy
[04:43.32] His skin
[04:46.17] is a brutally beautiful
[04:47.91] handwritten letter
[04:50.65] from the sun.
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