IN REVERSE

Letters on a screen. Yellow letters, black background. A series of notes, not a fanfare exactly, but an insistent figure. Two men walking, one in a blue shirt, the other in green, both with jackets over the shirts. The blue shirt is holding a hat in his hands. The green shirt is eating an apple. A blue box appears over the face of the man wearing the blue shirt. A red box appears over the face of the man wearing the green shirt. Boxes flash on and off. On-flash, off-flash. The man in the blue shirt begins to scream the name of the man in the green shirt. The man in the green shirt begins to scream: just that, to scream. Letters reappear, quavering now. The series of notes, still not a fanfare, is played in reverse. We are exactly where we started, only much worse.

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