He didnt want to use a cliché  he always thought they were cheap and minimized the 

event they were affixed to  and described

but  he realised  sometimes they were perfectly apt

seemingly crafted for the particular instance they were applied

he felt as if he had been hit by a ton of bricks

a friend called

they had talked  goodnatured  glib  laughed

and as they went to hang up his friend abruptly interrupted

--   Ohshit  Almost slipped my mind

Angie died

Christ

I didnt even know she was ill

--   Angie

--   Yeah  Angie  From work

                                                                                                       

they hadnt worked with her in four years

Mismanagement hung them all out to dry

the company  lock stock and barrel  bought for a song

all the employees got pissed on

the only satisfaction he later derived  for he and his coworkers efficiently gutted

was that the companys sole owner

within a year of the sale

was beaten to death

tied to a chair in his home

in an upscale California enclave

California had lots of box canyons 

and buried deep in their throats

many residents thought themselves safe

and secure

he didnt think his employers wife was really surprised when she found his body

he was notorious for disrespecting their marriage

as a matter of fact he wouldnt have been surprised if she set had the table

she maintained a fat life insurance policy on him

and he always flaunted if he were murdered 

--   Somebody please finger my wife

no one pointed

--   Angie

--   Can you believe it

--   I knew she was fighting cancer but last I heard she got a leg up on it

Sound scans afterwards

WOW

--   Something else huh

Shit!

She was younger than you

--   She was

Shell always be now

Tried and true clichés

His thinking became troubled

what if our lives amounted to nothing more than validating the efficacy of trite clichés or 

idioms
viewed from well-maintained crushed graveled paths

an upward sloping expanse

a grassy graveyard stabbed with headstones  in line

like uniform touchkeys or their associated monetary tableaus genteelly popping up 

behind the narrow display glass of an antique register

“Incorruptible Cashiers”

penny-counters

bean-counters

head-counters

our stories

dead as doornails

unexhumed

2300,  Monday,  15  9. 14