baby left her alibi at the front door

[centralizes]

[Today, a watchful person may notice any number of things:]

[One, there is suddenly, in those seedier parts of town where good boys and girls aren't meant to go, a shiny, new, healthy-looking clinic. Come one, come all, pimps and prostitutes, otherworlders and unfortunately curious tourists!]

[Two, at the docks, there is what is either a castrated man or a mildly masculine-looking woman in a heated argument with what we can assume to be the owner of the rather large ship they're standing in front of. ... Heated on his part, that is. Our prettyboy seems nothing if not completely unconcerned, even as they plead their case.]

[And three, some gent only recognizable by King's College students or anyone unfortunate(?) enough to have visited one Miss "Elaine" while he's around. He's just doing some shopping, though. Uninteresting as usual, Slenderfucker.]

Comments

[selfreleasing]

Well...

It'd get all muddy, right? How do you clean a language?

[allmyfancy]

...Sir, are you implying English is not already filthy? I've read quite a few things that imply quite otherwise.

[selfreleasing]

Aren't you a little young for that?

[allmyfancy]

...I'm twenty-seven, sir.

[selfreleasing]

Well, you sure don't look it. Good for you.

[allmyfancy]

How kind of you to say so.

...Now why was it I was here?

[selfreleasing]

You were looking for a word you can make a sentence out of just by itself, right? I'm not a linguist though.

[allmyfancy]

It's an english word, I believe.

It's just an answer to a riddle...I bet they'd know, how sad.

[selfreleasing]

[He makes an odd little face at "they," but is otherwise unperturbed.]

Maybe I read a book along those lines once...

[Goes quiet for a bit, thinkinggg -- oh]

... An animal, right?

[allmyfancy]

An animal? An animal...Ah!

[She starts, as if she just remembered something quite important.]

Oh, that's it, that's right, how could I forget!

[selfreleasing]

[Meanwhile he is going over lists of animals with double-meaning names in his head, but -]

-- Do you remember the word?

[allmyfancy]

It's a great American beast, I believe they're called a buffalo?

[selfreleasing]

-- Oh. Oh, yeah.

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo," right?

[allmyfancy]

That's the one! [She is...pretty damn excited for a play on words.]

[selfreleasing]

... But I don't remember what it means. Sorry 'bout that.

Is it that exciting, though?

[allmyfancy]

Buffalo from Buffalo city bully buffalo, who in turn bully other buffalo.

...It's quite a tragic situation, come to think of it.

[selfreleasing]

Well, that's how it works, right? Kids that get bullied either at home or other places end up being bullies sometimes.

... But it's still unfortunate, yeah. Even for buffalo.