By mechanics, stress is how a solid's inside wants to move, so stressing out implies our skin is expanding or densifying. Making room for what? stress asks, focused on the inaccesible internal. Pressure shares a unit with stress, is its cause or reflection if point or moment won’t do, but associates more with liquids airs and other things external always to themselves, who when they move we call it flow instead of strain. To pressure stressing out implies a pull in every direction at once, as when a pistol shrimp shoots by isolating water until what's left can't do anything but boil. This is a courtroom poem, and here engineering differs from my attempts to understand, because this water boiled by isolation is to engineering under abnormally low pressure. What's the Thursday of that week, your honor? If stress is what pressure surrounds, pressure is the net flows cross. drop a tine of tracers to see lines stream; where they are close that's high pressure, as at the leading edge of a lifting surface or the rapid radio/office voice of lawyers repeating. here, out of custody. But as with streamlines those in this room do not touch, laminar, though it is a room in which you want touch and turbulence, a floorplan whose pews are where the zoo lines up to watch the zookeepers. Above the windows bronze repeats a beehive with a sphincterous opening but no bees, understandable in the deadly atmosphere. Since it's been two years, strike conditions A and B, and strike the second halves of Seven and Eight. Perhaps the bees too were ordered to report to probation, given the radio-ad outro of rapidfire terms and conditions, a flow from which I barely caught what pulled us here: that any arrest, even released without charges pressed, is a probation violation and threatens ninety-five days behind bars. After an hour in court simmering worry has settled the pews into a gel of dull waiting, neither stressed solid nor flowing fluid, neither growing from a curious internal nor finding form in moving together, as the tenant we are here to firm is called up & flanked by pistols.