It must have been some side effect of the gel tabs.

What was I watching? I didn’t waste time on the guide.
The guy from big pharma was saying it’s alright.

Perfectly normal, perfectly natural. Once the rationing began, 
we got ten seconds of catfight, each. Then, blackout.

Six minutes. After that, expressed impatience to sign the waiver.
All hoped the drug would trigger special powers.

It was perfectly normal, perfectly natural. Perfectly human.
It was mermen versus bots. What was I watching?

Had the plots got hybridized on the way down from the satellite?
A kid swapped his kidney for ten seconds more of watching.