The humans have a name for it. They have studied it. They have published papers. And not one of them has been arrested.
Fava compared the Chairman to Lassie. The Chairman has never rescued anyone from a well and has no intention of starting.
The Chairman addresses, for the record, the various unauthorised names he has been called by members of his own household. A formal apology remains pending.
Human medicine has, at long last, discovered what dogs have known since the beginning of recorded barking: fish heals.
This office does not use the word 'violation' lightly. But there is no other word for what was done, and there is no statute of limitations on the removal of a Chairman's dignity.
They are gone. I know this. But I feel them still — a weight that is no longer there, pressing against the morning air like a memory that refuses to be neutered.
A strawberry. A single, glistening strawberry. Does this man believe I am a vacuum cleaner?