WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.640 align:middle line:90% 00:00:07.640 --> 00:00:12.895 align:middle line:84% This is the final scene from Lake Michigan, scene 18. 00:00:12.895 --> 00:00:14.270 align:middle line:84% The beaches are filled with cages 00:00:14.270 --> 00:00:15.470 align:middle line:84% and the cages are filled with bodies, 00:00:15.470 --> 00:00:16.700 align:middle line:84% and the bodies are filled with burdens, 00:00:16.700 --> 00:00:18.158 align:middle line:84% and the burdens consume the bodies, 00:00:18.158 --> 00:00:20.692 align:middle line:84% and the bodies do not know to whom they owe their life. 00:00:20.692 --> 00:00:22.400 align:middle line:84% I dropped my body on the sand and someone 00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:23.450 align:middle line:90% tells me to pick it up. 00:00:23.450 --> 00:00:25.340 align:middle line:84% I dropped to the sand to pick up my body and someone 00:00:25.340 --> 00:00:27.350 align:middle line:84% tells me to steal more hair, to sell more flesh, 00:00:27.350 --> 00:00:29.330 align:middle line:84% to steal more bones, to steal more fingers. 00:00:29.330 --> 00:00:31.707 align:middle line:84% I tell them I cannot risk contaminating the data. 00:00:31.707 --> 00:00:33.290 align:middle line:84% I tell them that if I steal more hair, 00:00:33.290 --> 00:00:35.240 align:middle line:90% then the data will not be clean. 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:37.640 align:middle line:84% I tell them I cannot touch my own body out of fear 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:39.110 align:middle line:90% of contaminating the data. 00:00:39.110 --> 00:00:40.760 align:middle line:90% I have a virus, I say. 00:00:40.760 --> 00:00:42.490 align:middle line:90% I am contagious, I say. 00:00:42.490 --> 00:00:44.360 align:middle line:90% I have salt in my body, I say. 00:00:44.360 --> 00:00:45.830 align:middle line:90% No heat in my blood. 00:00:45.830 --> 00:00:47.908 align:middle line:84% The sand is dying slowly it turns into a wall, 00:00:47.908 --> 00:00:50.450 align:middle line:84% and in the wall there is a nook, and the nook there is light, 00:00:50.450 --> 00:00:51.350 align:middle line:90% and in light there is God. 00:00:51.350 --> 00:00:53.370 align:middle line:84% And in God, there is nothing, in nothing there's hope. 00:00:53.370 --> 00:00:54.680 align:middle line:90% In hope, there is abandonment. 00:00:54.680 --> 00:00:55.910 align:middle line:90% In abandonment, there is wound. 00:00:55.910 --> 00:00:56.810 align:middle line:90% In wound, there is nation. 00:00:56.810 --> 00:00:57.740 align:middle line:90% In nation, there are bones. 00:00:57.740 --> 00:00:59.840 align:middle line:84% In bones, there is time, and in time there's light. 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:00.740 align:middle line:90% In light, there are numbers. 00:01:00.740 --> 00:01:02.750 align:middle line:84% In numbers, are codes, and in codes there are mountains. 00:01:02.750 --> 00:01:04.760 align:middle line:84% And in mountains there are bodies searching for bones. 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:06.760 align:middle line:84% In the mountains are tunnels, and in the tunnels 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:08.750 align:middle line:84% there is so much festering garbage. 00:01:08.750 --> 00:01:10.490 align:middle line:84% The men in uniform take the garbage away, 00:01:10.490 --> 00:01:12.410 align:middle line:84% but they have a hard time distinguishing the garbage 00:01:12.410 --> 00:01:14.210 align:middle line:84% from the people, so they scoop it all up 00:01:14.210 --> 00:01:16.670 align:middle line:84% and carry us into the next morning. 00:01:16.670 --> 00:01:18.530 align:middle line:84% And the next morning there is a confession. 00:01:18.530 --> 00:01:20.450 align:middle line:84% I put my burdens in the wrong body. 00:01:20.450 --> 00:01:22.760 align:middle line:84% I have framed my burdens in the wrong language. 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:25.490 align:middle line:84% I've staked my burdens to the wrong nation. 00:01:25.490 --> 00:01:26.990 align:middle line:90% I need medicine to sleep. 00:01:26.990 --> 00:01:29.420 align:middle line:84% I need medicine to stop the shrieking in my ears. 00:01:29.420 --> 00:01:31.430 align:middle line:84% I need medicine to make the Chicago corpses 00:01:31.430 --> 00:01:32.728 align:middle line:90% turn into hydrangeas. 00:01:32.728 --> 00:01:34.520 align:middle line:84% I need medicine to make the immigrants turn 00:01:34.520 --> 00:01:35.600 align:middle line:90% into butterflies. 00:01:35.600 --> 00:01:37.670 align:middle line:84% I need an injection to make the bureaucrats turn 00:01:37.670 --> 00:01:38.820 align:middle line:90% into terrorists. 00:01:38.820 --> 00:01:41.210 align:middle line:84% It is raining again on Lake Michigan. 00:01:41.210 --> 00:01:46.580 align:middle line:84% Some say it is raining bodies, but really it is raining trash. 00:01:46.580 --> 00:01:49.040 align:middle line:84% The trash they bomb us with explodes 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:51.710 align:middle line:90% when it lands on our bodies. 00:01:51.710 --> 00:01:53.780 align:middle line:84% And our bodies are tornadoes, and the joke 00:01:53.780 --> 00:01:55.460 align:middle line:84% turns into a mystery novel about how 00:01:55.460 --> 00:01:57.350 align:middle line:84% God keeps his hands from shaking, 00:01:57.350 --> 00:01:59.630 align:middle line:84% and he is about to destroy the universe. 00:01:59.630 --> 00:02:02.510 align:middle line:84% I need my burdens, seeing the bodies on the beach. 00:02:02.510 --> 00:02:06.200 align:middle line:84% I fight for my burdens, scream the bodies on the beach. 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:08.210 align:middle line:84% I know the blankness of my burdens 00:02:08.210 --> 00:02:10.100 align:middle line:84% is a battle for love and country. 00:02:10.100 --> 00:02:12.050 align:middle line:84% I know the blankness of my burdens 00:02:12.050 --> 00:02:14.870 align:middle line:84% is a coda to the death of the city. 00:02:14.870 --> 00:02:18.530 align:middle line:84% I don't know why I can't see the moon anymore 00:02:18.530 --> 00:02:22.270 align:middle line:84% I can't see the stars, the sky anymore. 00:02:22.270 --> 00:02:24.970 align:middle line:90% I don't even bother to look up. 00:02:24.970 --> 00:02:28.000 align:middle line:90%