'here & Know'

I began my journey as a junior line poultry puller at Chicken Fillet E factory number sixteen not knowing it would change my life. The deep, meditative motion of ripping dead chickens apart over the course of eight to sometimes as many as ten straight hours, led my mind to a pool of clarity I didn't know existed. I thought about my old job in the city.... For thirty-seven years I worked in the Pelican Building as a marketing man. I came up with the ideas for commercials back when there were still commercials for things, back when their were, you know, things. Of course, after the riots calmed down and the eternal fires were strategically lit in honor of the nearly 50% of the population who perished in them, we entered into the period of time which came to be known as The Great Relocalizing. The writing had, probably, been on the wall for sometime before then, but the dissolution of national media, national travel, and national life as we once knew it, meant a big ole "thank you, see you later" for folks of my