-- So whydja pick this spot
Lotsa college birds
-- Comon
Its a nice coffeehouse
Good coffee
I know you like good coffee
-- Not the birds
-- The birds as you say arent bad Gives ya
something to look at when mulling an idea or slipping through an awkward pause
in conversation
-- Cuz we have so many awkward
pauses in our conversations
-- No Yes
Because
often during our conversations I have to avert my eyes to confirm Im still on
the planet Earth
Comon
its takes you no time to slip its
bonds or bounce beyond its boundaries
-- Say
not bad lotsa Bs
-- See
Youre
like walking around outdoors with a colored helium balloon tied by a string
Its just good to get you inside
so you just hang straight up in the air
Straight up Directly overhead
-- So you
wanna tie me up
-- Yah I wanna tie you up The fuck
I want to eliminate distractions those
things that somehow however maudlin to
me attract you
-- Shiny
-- Im being serious Youre like a kid Everything
you see is like the first time you ever saw it
-- And isnt it
-- Yes
It is I agree There
Though you make things very
difficult
-- Maybe we could rummage up a Cone of Silence
-- Funny
I think in silence youd still find something to be distracted by
-- Im a child
-- Youll get no argument from me You are a child
--
-- So what
have you been up to
-- The same old
Takin dicktation
Its become effortless
I dont choke or gag like I used
to
I dont have to be convinced to get on all fours and take it
-- Jesus Christ man he said leaning in towards him Woja shaddup
Look around
You want someone to overhear you think youre a homo
-- Twothousandfifteen
Really
Homo
-- Im talkin to you Nobodys more un-PC than you
The hell I know youre yanking my chain
-- I am
he
raised his voice
I do love dick
it sounded like a gunshot that no one wanted to know where it came from
those around them
crouched squatted a bit in their chairs
then
abruptly he scaled his voice back
in
a breathy whisper
I
love their horrified wanting-to-know-more
looks
Their curiously tortured expressions
Everyone
everyones a fuckin voyeur eavesdropper
pejorative petulant
And I lay that at the feet of
social media heroes propaganda Reality TV and the little tykes begging pleading doggerel for smartphones because
soandso and soandso has one
and their parents who should know
better submit rationalising that a smartphone is security
a safeguard
a little peace of mind
because
our fearmongering is so polished and pervasive that you cant go anywhere in the
World without stepping in shit and there
aint a clean edge of a concrete curb left to scrap it off on
-- Like I said
aint nobody can touch you when it comes to being un-PC
You been working on that for
awhile
-- No
An old realisation
I try and keep my fingers
crossed remain hopeful
But I need to emote on occasion
You must be wearing your collar
-- Priest collar
-- Thats the one
-- I am
I absolve you of your emotion
-- Thank you
The coffees good like you said
-- Well then
good . . .
he held up his caramel-stained ironstone mug to him
. . . heres to
you takin dick
-- Yes
To dick
AM-ish, Sunday,
16 2. 15
2141, Monday, 17 2.
15
