Everything gets all over everytjhing in war-climate.  The news of 4000 Haitian prisoners by escaped and airports in other countries not on alert for that kind of fast breaking critical information....

  People take stances and talk in parking lots, I see it as a matter of mental health, I've not been in prison so work as prison is....voices fall off as a rain-soaked lump of cart and human melds with the gloaming.  Day's gleaming brings forms to "life" if life is the senses.

  Satellite blips and feet shuffling cross the same spaces, Where are you dawn?

  in a store an elderly woman stands behind a had been panicked, so cried child and motions workers over, carefully, a lost one, she's not performing but live action demonstrating--what to do.

  Years and years ago business people had to not-team-up-to-team-up-on-safety.  So no matter brand reppin' and loyalty club membership we were outsmarting that "thing," that insta-tokyo-s thing.  Caring glimmers even in a wash of neon and acid rain.

  And there were really important reasons why businessowners/workers were doing what all we were doing.  When I was young I got to learn a lot working, as we all do in reality, at the crossroads between city and country.  Sometimes as a mainstream-needs-to-dominate culture that's a mix of culture, it's about listening to eachothers' whys.  And in some political clime, it's treacherous-going: upholding law/fading grey.

  As youth and non-owner-participants some days at work were like Hardy Boys books.  You'd be wondering why an ancient boss did things exactly in a certain way, just like chores on a farm.  But askin' why could getcha almost smacked or a dirty look.  Especially asking why or how come in frontah customers.

  This ain't public, one boss must've said fifty times a day to those "loitering".  Why's he so mean?  An afterschool workerkid would ask.  Them'ns blockin' the entrance, bossman would have heard or guessed the kid's question.

  When I was older young I couldn't figure out why people were frighteningly concerned with a person working in more than one place.  I had patient people in the businessworld to ask and some of the answers were not really totally understood by me.  I got some things but on my "level" of learning all about business.  Just like in college, survey courses come before seminar level work.  Secret ingredients, yes; sale info & timing of reveal; outdoing competition; business espionage; insider trading; the weight of "higher up" was crushing and for pennies in earnings...entry level jobs in retail and food service, laboring, and administrative seem not just like a hard row to hoe but damn near impossible thruways to class status in America.

  And then I got a little older still and had work that let me come to understand how something like an egg in a breakfast place could be like a nugget of gold or nuclear material.  Food safety and licensing is some of the most complex "law" there is.  A whole region can be impacted by a bad egg.  And a bad egg might be indicating somebody messing with the eggs or something's wrong with a/the chicken(s)... Both possibilities are criminal.  And sometimes a bad egg brings people together to fend for and tend boundaries.  When businesspeople tend supply lines there's US teamwork but not communism.