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good for you. How nice.

For some of us though

thisisurgent.

Maybe this is just silly makeup

and fun times to you

but to me, this is a job—

a career starter.

I want to do this well and right.

So fuck you if you don’t

want in—I don’t need you or—

Whoa!

Hey—Lyric, slow down.

Hold on a minute.

We are off the ice now

and Lyric is shoving things

into her bag.

I hobble over to her

still in my skates

and sit down next to her.

I’ve obviously missed something here,

I say.

Can we start again?

Help me understand

what just happened?

Lyric is shaking

her face lit up with fire

her whole body

taut and tense.

I do need this money, I continue,

but you’re right.