Shot Order

close up of a mouth eating breakfast

long shot of cars stuck in traffic

cut to a man on a train

scratching the scab on his face

zoom in on you in the mirror

putting on your makeup it’s serious

pan to your ancestors tilling the soil 

forward a millennia they’re sold as toys

follow a conversation

of a middle aged couple

struggling with a handle 

on a world they can’t control

trying to feel romantic

without a sense of desperation

surrounded by advertisements

for electric cars

wide shot of a crowd leaving the subway 

armies of phones glowing like insects

we track a girl of nineteen

texting her parents for money

at this point in the action I do my walk on 

evoking kitsch Russian ads for tampons

I smile then I look in your face

you scream and run away

( I give chase on my Segway )

zoom out as this song

plays in the background

life looks beautiful

the world is cruel

all captured in 

a spinning solar system

framed by 

an indifferent universe