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seems like last jump had an increase in law enforcement officers.
how nice. i know i for one feel much safer with some of new york's finest aboard.

all i want to do is my work anyway I choose to do it, all I want is the next line and the line after that. what they do and who they are and what they want and what they say and what they write has no interest for me and, unfortunately for them, no interest to most others living, dying or about to be born, uh huh.

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[tumbleweeds]

boys in uniform inspiring poetry readings
you all should go dancing next

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[learnedtosmile]

Only 1 NYPD I've met.

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[puppydogeyes]

Sure poetry's going to help next time we're dealing with mutant monsters.

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[astrogate]

Did you come up with that yourself?

[certainproclivity]

Bukowski.

[Can you really sound THAT PRETENTIOUS in text form? Apparently, Sark can.]

Interesting choice.

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dancing's not my thing
but you feel free

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two's still more than zero, or don't they teach you kids math anymore?

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you know what they say about soothing the savage beast
or was that music

[tumbleweeds]

two left feet? poor thing
i actually like dancing but it's never been the waltz
think i'll stick to people who know how to have fun if i go looking for a dance, though

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no one here recognize bukowski?
jesus

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i was beginning to lose hope

wanna elaborate?

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no just an aversion to the business
a man's got a right to his aversions

you might be looking a while
this place don't seem big on it

[tumbleweeds]

all dancing?

it's not
but i manage

[learnedtosmile]

And it's less than one, which was my point.

Unless there's another NYPD officer hanging around here. Captain Stacy is the only one I've met.

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[birdhousesoul]

There are people aboard who aren't literate. I'm going to read your post to them before I reply.

[And he does. He reads the free verse as though it were prose, because to Anders, poetry is rhyming or alliterative, in some metrical form or other, and he assumes that the spacing of Keller's post is merely an artifact of the communicator.]

Thus ends the message. I've only got one thing to say to it, really:

What sort of place do you come from, that the presence of law enforcement officers would actually make you feel safer?

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all
except when required

resourceful.
i can appreciate that

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should i not have lumped you in with them?
i didn't think we had a category for made up places.

permatext

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aren't you a good samaritan. gold star.

why, they don't make you feel safe?

[tumbleweeds]

everything sucks if it's required

lap dances?

i like being appreciated.
and it's not so hard

[learnedtosmile]

Maybe it doesn't exist where you come from, but I can assure you, Gotham is very real. And it's not in New York.

permavoice

[birdhousesoul]

[Anders assumes Ros et al will be able to discern the conversation from this point forward just from hearing his side of it. If any new or substantial information is shared, though, he'll read it.]

I really don't get called good very often, and I'm sure I haven't got a clue what a samaritan might be. It doesn't take much effort to be mindful. Literacy is a privilege. You're lucky to have been taught.

And no. They don't make me feel safe. Rather the opposite. Why should they make you, personally, feel any safer?

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offering?

people make things more complicated than they should be
rules, regulations, blah, blah, blah
getting what you want, that's an art these days.

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just cause we're on a spaceship
doesn't mean i'm going in for whatever story you're peddling

regardless
you got a point?

[tumbleweeds]

perhaps surprisingly, stripper was never one of my jobs
and i thought you didn't like dancing

i'm picky about my art
but i like that sort
like surviving better though

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you'd be surprised

most people don't have any problem with the boys in blue where i come from
you got dirty cops on your world or something?