I used to do this at school. Where Jack had had “had,” Volodya had had “had had”—

Had had had.

And that’s all it’s just a part of—you know—it’s normal.

It’s completely normal.

Turnover is normal it is part of the conventional challenges of human resourcing in a dog-eat-dog sector.

This is what it is.

This is the life.

I’m not upset like personally I am just—

It’s professionally upsetting is what I’m saying like it’s inappropriate it’s—

This is not okay man. This is not okay. I am legitimately unhappy with the loss of a key man—a KEY MAN in my organization. That is a term of art there are contracts with those words insurance policies and shit it is professional to talk about a key man and that is all.

There are consequences in this situation there are bills that come due and there’s a—

That’s crime Jack. Someone always gets no chicken.

Right?

That’s just how it is I’m fine.

I’m fine without my Ukrainian chicken.

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I meet some of the anarchists and they are quite nice although they all have these ridiculous names and shticks like I guess—though they would not like this description—they have anti-capitalist personal brands which speak to their personal struggle so for example Loob is a greasy little fucker like an emaciated seal and he does underwater welding as for example you would do on tanker and oil rig maintenance except that Loob is opposed to all such structures which are acts of violation toward Mother Earth and he is her warrior; Rosa is tall and thin and has a face like a kindly camel and she makes cakes for the mass of mankind and I greatly approve of free cakes; Fruit eats only a fungal preparation he makes himself, which he says is the future, and I have tasted the future and it is horrible; Thing has much hair; and we do not ask about Thong.

Ever.

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The anarchists are kind and they know we are sad so after some mammal grooming behavior to let us know we are welcome in their space they leave us alone. We eat cheese and bread and we drink beer and we lie down in the bed. I think she drugs me but maybe she does not. Sex can be life-or-death it is both and humans are chemistry and Doc understands that in ways I do not.