The masheen hasn’t been off for long, and because of this the kids are getting bold.
When is it off? A dirty one asks another (though slightly less) dirty one. I don know it (he?) replies to the wall in front of it/him. Ok… dirty seems satisfied with this.
Actually not really; whoa – I don want it! They yell, standing up to almost full height. The other kids (pretty dirty all of them) look over in shock at this standing. Standing like a masheen.
Dirty leans on the feed tube, hey fuckin stop that cut it out, on and on the other kids start yellin. Me too. That feed tube isn’t cheap, and we can’t afford to keep it full and our masheen up. And without a masheen the other kids’ cities would come for us for sure, then we’d be working for a whole other masheen, one that maybe wasn’t so nice.