000004 #human Acting like a grasshopper typing like a madman. Give her a big smooch for me. I watch football. People yell because they can't have their guns. They got a special on that chain link fence you use to put your neighbor's yard over there and yours over here. We can all see each other's yards because there are no trees here. A few tall streetlight poles and some haze, that's it. The scene is dark-lit. Do you know what I mean by that? More glow! Turn up the glow! I work as a prostitute in the Fantasia district. The benefits are good. I get two months off every three months. I don't have any sexually transmitted diseases. The microchips see to that. It's a good job, but somebody's got to do it. Tee hee. Welcome to my fish. Why is the fish always implicated? That's how it's done here. How did things get this way? Do you remember the days of automobiles and sausages? I do. My kids barely do. They were born right before the strange haze descended. Right before it was unmistakable. Right before the war. The war has been going on a lot longer than most people realize. Most people don't realize it's going on at all. The perfect mouth of the bar never opens. You can't slide in there. It's an illusion. Give it up, slick boy. Open your teeth and your heart to me instead. I cost more up front but in the long run, you're better off. How do I know? I just know. I was there. I am here. Love me. You might as well. The foghorn sounds but we're not going inside. Not tonight. Not tonight.