The pipeline pt 3.
"I guess this is the place where we start weighing options About what is saccharine? What is toxic? What is acceptible? What is gossip? Replacing the faces of people regardless So what is going to save you from a world that is gone and forsaken" - INTRO, from the album Saint Anger, by Rural Internet (2022)* *** The slim shady. That’s what we called him. A lanky white boy full of swagger. He had been hospitalised in April. The notes said he wore a Christmas hat then. When we met him, a rainy Wednesday afternoon, having been caught in traffic, the rush of parents picking up kids, the world moving by, he was wearing a koala hat. The slim shady crossed the street, feet unsteady with alcohol and swagger. His speech slurred, his breath alcoholic, he plunked himself down on the bench. The psychiatrist began chatting to him. I was scrawling notes on a notebook to transcribe later. The usual. How was he doing?...