their conversation briskly circling their bare wood antique
table breezed to a crescendo
when she remarked Now wait before you go semantic on me
he interrupted Better semantic
than semitic You know thats going to
find its way into
my wrioting somehow
Ive no doubt
he had a way with words
a sorted way that conflagrated
minimized twisted and tortured them with scarcely a
pause or thought
semantics semitics he
looked on an advertisement from CI that ralleyed (there he goes
again) a “full-bodied
small-batch lovely” and read it a
full-bodied lovely small snatch
and perhaps while the majority
of overhearers eyebrows might vault or furrow their
brows take offense
- not that he would be affected
by their disdain - she
she would
open her eyes widely
then smile
genuinely amused
she was beyond offense
though a good portion of her
inoffensiveness was related to her open mind and
sensitivity
she learned early on in their
relationship he simply divulged his curiosity without
judgment or attention or worry
of how it sounded
as a child
might
he was invigorated obsessed to slight
educations processes
its pedagogy to deploy a
limiting discipline quelling curiosity and funneling its wards
into tamer representations of
themselves
he was convinced everyones
brain at the get-go was an inhibiting organ and its
inhibition was enough without
the censure of education
so he dropped its rules like
fresh-laid eggs and examined their broken scatterings and
spatters
he might have been a haruspex or
soothsayer among his earliest lives and
returned
time and time again because he
hadnt gotten it right
but
maybe his preference was wrong
inclined to the return-trip
tickets
and she she was significantly ethereal
her wide-spaced eyes broad nose
her sensuality
she managed his mania
he managed hers
lovingly
(CI: Cigar Int’l)
1417, Sunday,
22 9. 13
