Exhausting the Exhausted Exhaustives

4 adults in a room discussing something or other they’ve just met or they’ve known each other for years either way they have nothing to talk about one is a lawyer one is a doctor one is an analyst one is a stockbroker babbling away about the food talking about their kids as if they were the ingredients on the side of a cereal box the need to keep money in order to “stay afloat” masks the fact that they were born into it & the accumulation of things keeps them together because the hassle of divorce just doesn’t seem very plausible given their schedules--- none of them have slept with any of them for years & they’d be hard pressed to remember each other’s birthday much less their favorite colors, but they are stable all of them--- from the outside they appear like good little worker ants pulling pieces of foodstuff from parts distant & bringing them daily through the tunnels to the queen voting in every local & national election going to church on sundays playing golf on weekends and using the word “summer” as a verb, in this conversation which none of them will be able to recollect a single word of the minute that it stops.