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It's not really a poem; it's a song. It's from the Bible -- Psalm 40, verses 11-15, mostly from the New International Version (1984 edition), but rewritten just a bit to use plural pronouns rather than singular. Jackson's final line ("For here lies the dead, the dust of the earth.") was not part of the biblical text.

Aspiring graphic artist Clayton 'Clay' Riddell (John Cusack), train driver Tom McCourt (Samuel L. Jackson), and teenager Alice Maxwell (Isabelle Fuhrman) band together when a worldwide electronic 'pulse' turns cellphone users into homicidal maniacs. The three survivors (not having been on a cellphone at the time) attempt to make it north from Boston to Maine where Clay hopes to reunite with his estranged wife and young son Johnny. Meanwhile, the world descends into apocalyptic madness as the afflicted begin turning into something worse.

Cell is based on a 2006 novel by American horror novelist Stephen King. King adapted the novel for the movie along with American screenwriter Adam Alleca.

Finding only Johnny's note on the refrigerator saying that he is going to Kashwak, Clay decides to head north alone in the Mister Sundae truck, even knowing that it is wired with explosives and that Ray (Anthony Reynolds) has given him the detonator (in the form of a cell phone) and ordered him to use it when he becomes certain that it's the last hope. Clay advises Tom, Jordan (Owen Teague), and Denise (Erin Elizabeth Burns) to spray paint 'TJD' on the left-hand side of the road or on a tree wherever they go so that he can find them. Clay reaches Kashwak to find thousands of people heading en masse toward a cell phone tower. Clay plows through them and finds the red-hooded man standing in front of the tower. Clay rams into him with the truck and then shoots him repeatedly. He then pushes on foot through the masse looking for Johnny, but can't find him. Just as Clay is about to detonate the truck, Johnny (Ethan Andrew Casto) appears before him. Clay embraces his son just as the masse begins to shriek, led by the red-hooded man. Johnny begins to shriek, too. Knowing that he is at the end of hope, Clay pushes the detonator, blowing up the truck, the red-hooded man, and the cell tower. Clay and Johnny are then shown walking along railroad tracks. 'TJD' is seen on a tree alongside the tracks, and Clay tells Johnny that they are headed for Canada. In the final scene, however, Clay is shown walking mindlessly in the middle of a masse of other mindless people.