he figured he was stoned

his manner suggested he was blitzed  eyes red slightly crazed  frenetic herky jerky arms and legs  that was always sensational to find in a friend  the crumble of some salted sack food clinging to his moustache and beard which he never attempted in the whole time they talked to wipe it away with the back of his hand or fingers

there was a huge mirror tilted in the mouth of the disabled fireplace directly behind him where he sat on the floor opposite the coffee table from him that hed have to be utterly oblivious not to catch his reflection in

there was something to be said for utter oblivion

a dream-sopped weekend  maybe   here or there    and trying desperately to keep them apart or from coalescing   because like bits of mercury from broken thermometers they get a whiff of each other and want to pool  pool their resources    and pooled resources make for lost weekends things other people rave about  who werent as fucked up as you were and somehow werent reticent to say who was torqued out of their minds  they were the last people you wanted to hear or have others walk up to you to say  Aint you who  Who the fuck are you  Me I heard   Well unless you see you shouldnt say and if youve heard then who said should have kept their damn mouths shut unless you wanna tell me and Ill be happy to find them and shut their mouths for them   the kind of mutts who love standing on a stage at a podium yapping into a mike  their voices bawling over a PA system  touched by the warm white lights overhead  uplit by footlights  rabbling  ranting  unreeling a good yarn  what sounds good inflates them and theyre unable to see the faces of their audiences for their blindness in the glare  and those in the seats  the ones who stand at the edge of an orgy  yah  theyll look  take an eyeful  but they aint gonna get naked and slip in get wet   so   You got something else to say to me   Anything

they usually shaddup an make a quick  intelligent  getaway

Mahn   whakand of toilet paper ya use

Toilet paper

Yah whatcha like

Awright  Ill play  I like Cottenelles GentleCare  Enriched with aloe and E  Clean ripples Hell  sometimes I go into the bathroom just to take a moment and wipe my ass with it
Unnecessary    but I like how it feels

Eyve heard dat yah eyve heard dat

Thats what I spend my money on  Spose I got to ask  How bout you

Haw bout me  Haw bout me  Haw bout me haw dafuck bout me eym glad yaskd

Thought you might be

Ey   am   glad   ya   askd

Ey use Swanson Dat cat spews hecan sit in cowshit  swears hecan smear it all dafuck ovr hes body  Wah gawddamn he be perfect to wipe my ass wid

Swanson

Dat wha ey saw

In Des Moines Iowa

his eyes go black briefly  tune out   his breathing like hes breaking into a pant before he vomits  he gulps    he forces the vomit back down his throat with his huge fucking adamsapple dancing under the fur curtain of his beard

he takes either hand to the opposite corners of his mouth an wipes away the spittle gathered there
 

clears his throat

his eyes flicker like bad copper neon

then the burn picks up
 

the copper burning brightly again

hes back

cant help but wonder whats swimmin or racin in the pond of aqueous humor behind them

he clears his throat again

Dafuck Iowa  Grows corn an fuckin idiots fuckin Gawd nutjobs  Christ

So you dont lose your point cuz Im dyin to hear whadbout toilet paper

Yah Righ  Mah Swanson roll     has lilsquares   Fer teering

All do

Righ  But ey writ on mah Swanson lilsquares   ta remind meh      Cuz mah hed aint all ways dere gits away frum meh    Ta remember

he goes a little glazy again     but hes on a roll an I wanna hear                                      

                                                                                                            Remember what

Ey writ lilsquare  by lilsquare   unrollit an rollit back up      wen  ey dun

Whatcha write

Glad yah askd

Ey writ his nam onit furst

Den Leviticuss ateteen one den Leviticuss ateteen two an tree an fur up ta thurdy
   
Leviticuss ateteen got thurdy chap ters

Den ey writ Leviticuss twannee one  den twanee tahwu  anup ta twannee sevine

Twentyseven chapters

hes nods eyes goin black adamapples workin the vomit back down back home an I got my fingers crossed he makes it happen because Im sitting across from him and hell get me if he blows   I dont want him to blew   Cuz Ill blow

flickerin neon

Im thinkin comon back comon back  comonback muthafucker

he chokes a bit  coughs   brings his hand up before his mouth an coughs down into it

coughs again

Dafuck   Yahsay

I said twentyseven chapters in Leviticus twenty

Damnyafuckinshap

Im not  You said

Ey did   dint ey

You did

Ey rollsit back up   an wen ey shit ey wipe mah ass wid da lilsquares en member

Swanson  he sez   Iowas   Viticuss   Ey wipe mah ass

     

I like my Cottenelle

Yad like more ifn ya writ on da lilsquares   like eyduz

hes leaning forward   eyes dimming   backbone growing slack  I think hes gonna pass out   he lays his forehead then his face on the what-must-be-cool glass of the coffee table an mumbles  Treysit  betcha likesit

0124,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  11  11. 15  he was a vet

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