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One thing I know about the future is that in the future, I am dead.

Shut up. Don't talk, just listen. You can't level with the heights we hitting.

That girl there, she a catch no fishing. And if you take a fake, you will learn

your lesson.

I've been around the block for a minute now. Bigger vision on the mission,

better woman now. Ain't it funny how the squares wanna circle the ground? Cause

we got more business than a chicken house. I began to like the clinic,

work for a minute. A lot of thugs around me, a lot of green notes.

You're a poet now.

So near me.

Near you is... Trace.

Only on the outside.

Glad to hear it. It's been radio silence for months. I was going to think you'd

found a new mother.

How do you mean?

Uh... I dropped out.

This is your father getting in your ear. I didn't tell anyone, actually. I've

been too busy. Doing what?

Preparing to succeed.

I've been in a chrysalis of reinvention.

How creative.

I go by Flo. Get it?

Very clever.

Well, do me proud.

Why not?

Stranger?

Emily? I was not expecting to see you here. Are you performing too?

I wish.

Wait. What?

You're not?

I thought I'd give it a go. You always made it seem so fun.

Oh, you know, it's not like an open mic night thing. The line -up got announced

ages ago and they've all got books out.

Yeah, I called them up, explained the situation.

The... I made an exception.

I put a thing online a couple of weeks ago. Hair girl went kind of viral.

Oh, you wrote hair girl.

Wow. I... Wow.

Congrats. It turned out I'm a genius.

Have we met?

Um, I don't think so.

Malaysia. Who do you know here?

Uh, oh, Hamish. Oh, Hamish. Yeah, he's the best. Yeah, isn't he?

So do you go to a book? Yeah, I'm studying actually, biology.

Oh, is that like a huge one?

Among other things.

I don't think so.

Oh.

You shouldn't... They carry, like, a lot of diseases.

It's not like I touch them.

Oh.

What is the... Are you going to say hi?

Hey,

do you have hands?

No, I'm all good, thank you.

I'm Hamish.

And you are?

I'm D.

You're a perfect knuckle.

Yeah, okay, thank you.

Thank you.

Oh,

you know Elijah?

Yeah, yeah.

I've listened to him forever.

Hey,

can I get a little drink?

Yeah, love. Help yourself.

Hey, mate.

You look big.

No.

Don't worry.

I'm almost done. Someone's looking over.

Okay, well, just pretend that you're on a work call.

I've already made eye contact. I don't know his name. Describe him.

Uh, old, white, confident.

That doesn't narrow it down.

Super chiseled jawline?

Oh, um, Ryan Cargill, uh, Vanguard Investments, former banker, um, ex

-London, now mostly in property.

That's not quite Ryan. That's my son, Julian.

It's a Jared, is it? Oh, just Jared.

The D is silent, hillbilly.

It's like Django Unchained.

So this app you've invented?

Oh, Tituhono is a joint project, actually. What is your idea?

Technically, it was my girlfriend's. So you built it?

Actually, she's done most of the coding. Yeah, she taught herself.

She's always loved language.

Right, so what do you do?

Well, I sort out seed funding.

From?

My parents.

Hi. Kia ora. I'm Sadie.

Does it work?

The app, I mean.

Can you really live translate Maori?

Well, we can do more than that.

Te Tuhonu, which translates as connection, actually started as a

project for my PhD.

You see, many urban Maori are prevented from accessing their land, language,

ancestry, history, all thanks to language barriers. So you're marketing

Maori who don't know Maori?

No, not exclusively. There's also a very, very lucrative secondary market of

Pākehā wanting to connect with Māori. For example, in the education... You

want to tell your parents they're not getting their money back.

I feel their pain.

Do you think it's right?

No, Jared, we've been over this. You are not a disappointment.

I mean about the money.

Oh, um, well, I mean, I don't know, but obviously

this is first and foremost about...

Giving back. Giving back, yeah, yeah.

I think we're going to Vinyl.

There's this gig on tonight.

Oh, most nights actually. Yeah, nah, but they have great live music there. I

think that's why the name.

Vinyl, yeah.

But heaps of bars with cool names here.

Fortune Favors, Red Square, Lulu, Huffin,

Scotty and Mouth.

It's nice.

Yeah.

Genuine question.

Do you think this conversation is going to get any better?

Shall we call it?

Okay.

Follow me to the toilet. Really?

I thought we'd be fucking at the end of the night.

Why are you stealing toilet paper?

Sorry, I have any.

Are you okay?

Why? Because I have no money and no manners?

Yeah. Fucking great.

Thanks for asking.

We sing, and we're not sure why it feels so good. We dance, and... Haven't you

printed it out? No,

it's fine. It's not like a rule. It's just that most people read from their

books. Well, I don't have a book, Emily. I bring one fucking poem. That's great.

I just don't remember.

I didn't reach.

But we danced until sunrise.

Okay, cool.

You won't find this next act in your program because we didn't even know she

existed until literally two days ago when she became New Zealand's own

Banksy after posting an anonymous recording on TikTok, which has now been

over 100 ,000 times.

It is my great pleasure to introduce the surprise headline act performing her

searing, shocking, deeply personal debut poem, Head Girl.

Please welcome Florence Sadler.

That's Flo, actually.

And I wouldn't say deeply personal. I mean, the girl in this poem is, like,

comprehensively fucked up, so... Anyway.

She used to be head girl of her high school, and now she is a massive cunt.

Her high school boyfriend told her about his depression on a berm.

The berm was in Karori, where 35 % of berms are.

She burst into tears with real human efficiency.

And then she got depression too, out of empathy or FOMO.

She got asthma the same way when she was five years old, kicking the back of the

passenger seat. Me too, actually.

I have that too.

Go, river, go, to ocean seek your third and end.

Rise again to cloud, to a mountain, to a mountain drinking from a tiny cup.

Ah, river, you are ocean, you are island.

This is Dr. Kenny Thompson.

He's one of my PhD supervisors.

There we go.

Impressive, isn't she?

Yes. Yes, very impressive.

Anyway, back to business.

Sorry, I need to... I can walk with you if you go.

Thank you so much for coming.

It's all part of the job.

Plus, I can't let you hang out here all by yourself.

Are you asking for too much money, do you think?

Our people shouldn't need to pay to access their language.

Oh, no, no, no, they won't. See, we've got a strategy, a two -pronged approach.

So it'll be free access for iwi and a subscription service for businesses.

So we just need investment to get up to market so we can actually pay back our

investors and... Sorry, where are you going?

Hi.

Excuse me, do you mind?

Hi. Hi.

It's Julian, right? Yes.

Do you know why your dad came up to talk to us earlier?

Um, no.

Because his last three resource consents were turned down by local iwi.

Well, yeah, anyway, I just... I wanted to say that I... I get it.

My mum's pretty hard to please, too.

I just wish I had a trust fund to take the pain away.

It doesn't... take the pain away.

Oh.

Well, I'm very sorry to hear that, Julian.

Hey, I just had an idea.

What if you invested in our app?

Me? Oh, yeah.

Imagine. Imagine how much it would help your father if he could stop his

developments getting stalled by a wee protest.

I mean, all it would take is some meaningful engagement and perhaps

investment... Nah,

it was a risky job.

You know, it's kind of cruel to keep a wild animal as a pet.

Waiting until its cast comes off.

How do you put a cast on a huge home?

It doesn't matter.

Bullshit.

Hey.

Who do you know here again?

Sorry?

Who did you come with?

It's a bit rude, Hamish.

You coming?

You know, I just got you kicked out.

Was that on purpose?

No.

I just asked him who you were.

Is that your question?

Cool.

Okay, well, are you going to stay at this amazingly average party or come

to mine so I can sit on your face?

You could have been dead.

Here she is.

Wow, you were phenomenal.

Oh, you remember my friend Caro Beecham?

Oh, of course. She's looking for passion projects now that she's retired.

Turns out there's only so many paintings you can fit on the book.

So are all your poems that good?

Every single one.

Well, that's it then.

Let's have a meeting, say, end of next week, and we'll take it from there.

Yay, I guess.

Yay, indeed.

Oh, God. Oh, God.

Hey,

Bob. How was the investor presentation?

I bet you had loads of funding offers for your appy. Check you out.

Taking tattoo onwards to the world. How did you not want to play to Juliet?

I know it's hype.

I was down at the pub last night and I was telling Big Matt that once your app

launches, I'll be famous. Yeah.

That egg tiger might ask me to voice his next Hollywood movie after hearing my

erotica.

That'll make the fellas down here real jealous.

I might even get a couple of free feeds out of it.

And it all started with my clever daughter.

I'm proud of this pub. I can't wait to see my parents' faces when I pay them

back.

Wait, no.

We're not using that money to... Oh, yeah, no, no, no, yeah, yeah. I mean,

you know, once we're raking it up, like, so does the co -papa.

We're such a great team.

Is this OK?

What?

I just, you know, want to make sure we stay connected.

Jared, we've been together since high school.

I mean, we own a business together.

And my mother rings you before she rings me.

Well, she's a special woman.

We could not be more connected.

I guess I just don't want us to become victims of our own success, you know?

I won't let that happen.

Okay? Yeah.

Now, I really have to get started on my thesis.

Really? Do you have to?

80 ,000 words aren't going to write themselves.

But I mean, I've got 30 minutes.

Yeah? Yeah.

We could go play Icarus.

Yeah.

I might just go home.

Okay. If you need to.

Oh.

Right. Yeah.

Good night.

Wait. Oh, sorry.

Come and do it for me.

No, no, no, I'm sorry.

Can we talk?

That depends.

Small or dirty.

I'm married.

Yeah, I know.

That's why you rang.

I don't do this.

Oh, just... It's kind of like you're masturbating, but my badge is your hand.

I knew you weren't lying.

My name is Virgil.

And I do lie.

So.

Like a lot.

What?

The way you behave.

You're exceptional.

I mean, yeah.

Pretty exciting.

No, I didn't say exciting.

I said exceptional.

Yeah. Yeah, damn right you should.

Sorted. What?

Do you want a pie?

Seems so chill.

Have I just been given...

Like, a few days to write, what, 50 poems?

50. Look, I know you're a superhuman.

Look, I can't help being a go -getter. Why don't you just tell your mum that

need a bit more time? I'm fine.

Are you sure?

Are you sure you're OK?

I mean, people were worried when you went AWOL.

Well, people are idiots.

Well, do you want to brainstorm some ideas?

I could come over and... No.

The people aren't living.

We have nothing in common.

Why not?

They're just fucked.

Fragile. Fragile.

I try to avoid them. Well, why are they fucked?

Nice to see you, Emily.

Oh, okay.

See you. Bye.

Well, hello there, stranger.

Fuck yeah!

I feel like crying. Okay.

What's it going to be tonight?

Teenage Boy or Trump supporter?