bad habit

He had a bad habit of conferring himself  his health and wherewithal onto everyone around him

                                                                                                     a randy Johnny Appleseed run amuck

many beers

             later a bottle of good whisky between them  they sat talking before a fire ring on a night anointed by the approaching blue moon

then late  all the problems of the World solved it was time to call it a night

                                                                               and he did

he told them that he would grab up the three lawn chairs

he also grabbed the empty bottle of whisky and his emptied beer bottle

then this morning urinating noisily he looked out of the screened window down onto the clumpy gray ash cotained in the fire ring

         before it on the raked ground he saw their empty glasses 

 

she had used the kids 80s Welch's painted jelly jars  an orange Tyrannosaur and its buddy a blue Brontosaur

they stared up at him from exactly where they had left them

he made coffee

they sat around the yellow linoleum and chrome kitchen table and drank it together

he asked  Were you two rocked last night or did you think I was also going to grab up your glasses when we came in

My hands were obviously full

YES like a choir  We were really rocked

I didnt know that I thought you picked up your glasses when I grabbed the chairs

We didnt

Plainly Theyre still out there

Could have sworn we did

No

Justsaying

Dontsay

Well  we were rocked

I didnt know that

You werent

I wasnt

Huh

Im sorry I didnt recognise you were

Because you werent

Because I didnt think we drank that much We had everything over seven hours

Well   We  Were  Rocked

Sorry I apologise   The conversations were cogent 

Rocked

he had to suppose Inians and Englishmen didnt have the tolerance of a Chicago-born polack

he did have a bad habit

1808,  Thursday,  30  7. 15