Episode 4: Why Don't You Get a (Real) Job?

Marcus: "getting tired" Oh, man..It feels like it's been much longer than usual when I go to Redwood's place..

Andrea: Is it because of me?

Marcus: No, it's probably because I'm walking this time..

Andrea: ...Hey Marcus, did uh..did you ever have a...a real job?

Marcus: This. I've got this. It's a job.

Andrea: Yeah, but I mean, an honest day's work type job. Just a simple job. The kind of thing that kindergarten children aspire to be, like a fireman or a policeman.

Marcus: Well, I've stopped fires, but they're the ones I started..

Andrea: How did you start a fire?

Marcus: You ever heard that whole Richard Pryor "crack smoking incident" bit?

Andrea: Yeah?

Marcus: Bout like that.

Andrea: ..Oh.

Marcus: And police work? Not in a million years..what a corrupt fuckin' industry!

Andrea: Not to be a hypocrit..considering what..well what I am..but if they are corrupt..what are you?

Marcus: Me? I'm just another guy..sure I have money, and work in what people would like to say is a lucrative business..like everyone else on this big rock in the sky, I'm just a blip on the screen. Everyone has their own chance, I lost mine along time ago..I built myself up, and swept myself away..and that mistake is not reversable..

Andrea: ...Yeah..tell me about it.

Marcus: What do you mean?

Andrea: It's nothing..nevermind.

Marcus: I wish I had the ability to go back, and stop myself..to become something real..whatever exactly that is. I mean, what is real?

Andrea: I dunno. I wonder that very same thing sometime..

Marcus: I've been told real is what you become in the long run...pfft, last time I buy that shit..

Andrea: ...Uh..so how much longer now?

Marcus: About...ugh, shit!...way too fuckin' long..y'know what? Let's take a break..It's getting dark..we'll camp out for the night..come on!

Andrea: Ok.

Marcus: "thinking" Man, this is really not turning out the way I thought It would. Life. What a bitch it is. Eh, fuck it. I'll rough it all night, all week, all month if I have to. I can't take this place anymore...

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