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thats a hell of a thing to find on your phone in the morning when you havent had your coffee yet

yah  he wanted the girls number

but he wanted more  that phrase rockin around in his skull  throwing sparks
                                 

he didnt make a thing about approaching her from across the bar

when she finally absently made eye contact he rolled

she saw him coming

didnt turn her head  avert her eyes or start talking with her girlfriends to either side of her like Cerberuses guarding cake

   

she had a frank expression  perhaps a slight curiosity in there about the play this moloch was going to make

he cut her a deal

made he an offer she could refuse

she had a brightness to her a reality  she realised that she wasnt the only girl in the room

and the kind of women who didnt were a pain in the ass and he solemnly vowed himself never to approach one

--   Hiya  Im Joe  Id like to buy you a drink  --  not that most of this bar isnt dying to buy you a drink  --  but on a condition

 

--   A condition

she smiled a big smile her smile a pleasant smile no sarcasm wry or guile  a smile can bode a good beginning

--   A condition  Yes

he smiled

Ill buy you a drink if youll send me a text of this thing I got beating up the inside of my head

Id hate to lose it Its got possibilities I want to explore but if I languish here much longer 

and I do I do want to languish  I may forget it Not that I dont have a good memory 

Ive got a good long memory but I wouldnt forgive myself if in the morning it slipped   

cuz then Id have to try and dig it out with a grapefruitspoon

You know what a grapefruitspoon looks like

Itll hurt

--   Thats quite a line

--   Im incentivized  Ive dug thoughts and lines out of my head with a grapefruitspoon before

Its not pretty  and  as I said  itll hurt

--   Youll have to tell me first what you want texted before I agree

--   Okay  This is where things might get dicey

 

--   Dicey

--   Yeah I dont stand much in the way of things that occur to me or play with the light in the attic For that matter when I speak either Im refreshing though typically not a bright and bubbly refreshing

--   Thats quite a line

--   I guarantee you strike me as a girl who has withstood innumerable lines if you think this is a line and it isnt then youll never have heard one like it before or will ever again

--   Youll have to tell me before I agree

the Cerberuses circled and snarled snapping their chains taut

but at the chime of her double Markers Mark neat they snorted shot snot milled  heeled then wandered off 

--   So  where did that pair rumble in from

 

--   Nice you recognized there are two  I rarely see where anything descends or ascends from

For lack of better terminology they occur or incur themselves

Like hypnagogic restlessness out of the corner of my eye an aside  where so many other things care to hide  and even when they are seen stared full in the face theyre ignored because they make us uncomfortable

Our shitty discomforts prefer and alienate them

So very likely Im harboring whoevers whatevers howevers sassy vagrants

and vagrants  --  like everyone  --  if given an inch will take a green country-mile trying to cobble 

a space of their own

squat

as it were

until moved along

Then you tap their boots or shoes or the soles of their feet with a long hammer handle  a cops billyclub

Move it along  Move it along  Nothing to see here  Nothing to see  Move it along . . .

--   Move it along  Was I helping you move it along

--   No  Actually you helped facilitate their squatting

Never let anyone tell you you dont do squat

Youre mighty effective

he bolstered his coffee this morning  cheated it up with an extra heaping spoonful

he laid the coffeespoon down  tauntingly  beside a grapefruitspoon

Great  Her name  got her number  whats her name

What had she said

--   Dont screw up sailor  Rhymes with alley

hell  a junkyard dog like him ought to have been able to tuck that away overnight where it 
wouldnt be stolen or misplaced

they entertained themselves and a couple of drinks before she had to leave with the pups 
she came with

hed have to think on that

Alley                                                                                                                                                   but not before he danced with these shadowcasters that prompted his introduction

he wasnt sure which of them was the puppet  or the source

sclerosis

                                       

hunchbacked

frustrated porn star wannabes tucking their chests  taking their hearts out of play  keeping their vitals out of the way of horns or harms way

No matter  no matter

Christ  look at me being a cop

popcop trying to drag the truth out of a couple of enigmas  who  by their very being hold and play their cards close

real close to their collapsed chests

Rhymes with alley

Breaching my walls

Best mind my Ps and Qs

the coffee still wasnt done

or was it

he sniffed   Almost   he could just hear its rising gargle

take comfort in small things

find harbor against a storm  no its any port in a storm

I like my saying better

--   Sailor

Sailor

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hed thread em for a necklace

hang em around his throat

eventually theyd reveal themselves

theyd revel and rebel

and hed catch their jiggling reflections in a mirror  off a piece of glass  in those infernal sunglasses people hide themselves and peer furtively out from behind

were all a notion of hypnagogic restlessness

Ah  landed her rhymes with alley

he poured a cup of coffee

took up his phone

hed give her a call this morning

spend some time under her flickering  shimmering  generous lavender candle

her spreading light 

humour 

and kind warmth    

1803,  Sunday,  27  7. 14

1317,  Friday,  1  8. 14