people dont take or get many telephone calls like he did

when the phone rang barring idiot telemarketers who thought their barrage at the getgo got their foot into the front door  which he slammed shut midbarrage crushing feet an toes unapologetic  whoever thought that was a good idea or marketing strategy was full of shit up to their greedy eyeballs 

ah  when the phone rang few people had conversations as he

but mebe the difference was he was thoughtful he could listen and not be formulating a response in lieu of hearing what the caller said

he joked he wore a priests collar he couldnt see

seemed someone was at the ready to seek him out needing to confide something to him

he didnt solicit

never crossed his mind

Sympathetic  a shoulder to cry on commiserate

 

---   Hey   Im tryin with some difficulty to determine if what I think I remember Im remembering or Im swinging at shadows off base

---   Youre hilarious
It was the Sixties If ya can remember den yawerent really dereHuh

---   Yes 
 

That carries water

But I was lotsa places with you then and youve proven to have an uncanny memory

---   Probably because ey put those memories in a can to begin with

---   So

I was wondering
---   Spit it out

Ey can almost hear ya sidesteppin rockin twistin in da wind  Whacha wanna know or rather wha can ey help ya affirm or deny

Fuckin hilarious


---   Is everything hilarious to you

---   Well  Eyd be stealin a line from Jimi but ey think hed be pleased these many years later me still quotin im

Im of da school
              No reason to get excited the thief he kindly spoke There are many here among us who feel that life
is but a joke

Quoting Dylan too

Yah A joke  Hilarious

Ya ought to step aside give yourself plenty of room an belt out a humongous laugh

Yad feel better for it

Clear yer mind

Whas troublin ya

---   Crazy  I find myself wondering if I didnt see it in some film not that Id watch films like that but    then I think I remember  I think I actually saw what Im remembering

---   Sounds like a fuckin preamble or      ey dont know  escape    disavowment

---   Okay okay  New Orleans
---   Narleans

---   What

---   Narleans  Mardi Gras  Yer talkin bout our roadtrip extended stay 

Ey took three four lids an because ey was sleepin with dat skinny blonde huge rack Chris ey should have feared er boyfriend is name Thor she wanted me to turn hash for im  Er  Ey brought eight nine grams wid

---   You remember that

---   Yah playin tackle football with a can of Dixie beer because we didnt want to drink it On the levee

---   No 
---   No   Yadont remember dat

Howbout dat gaddawful wha was dat shit    ah pralines  On da riverboat from da concession  Sittin on the Mississippi  Later dat day rollin out to da plantation Da big white house slave quarters behind it den back into town the cemetery Saint Louis Cemetery  Smokin a joint on the fifty yardline inside da Dome Jumpin the stripper scramblin up da wroughtiron porch balusters she tossed rubber alligators down into the crowd rather dan beads
Bareassed chapped bikers gang
---   You remember them 
---   Yadont
---   No I do  Theyre part of what Im not sure I remember  If I remember

---   Coward

Whacha think ya remember

Ya goin shy on me cuz ey know wha comes next

Wha comes next Tell me

---   They were blowing guys on the street In the Quarter

---   Dey were blowing guys on da streetYah
Ya remember da huge black rider he threw is arms back caught anothers arms hooked elbows locked an hed heave yank da fuck off is feet onto is back den back to back others surroundin em stripped off da braced cats pants an dey masturbated im got im hard den set on im with their mouths Da chant Get it up Cum  Get It Up Cum   GET IT UP CUM
On Bourbon Street a couple of blocks up from Jackson Square Saint Louis Cathedral Laughin deyd bring im to climax duckin sidesteppin da guy shootin is load into da air spatterin people

---  Jesus

Thats what I remember

---   Dats wha yer doubtin ya remembered Da fuck  Ey kept tryin to shove ya in under it

---   You did

---   Eydid

---   Why would you do did that

---   Cuz ya an it were fuckin hilarious
An ey was stoned

---   I was stoned too

---   Yawere

But yawere always reserved  even stoned holdin back like yawas tethered

Ya didnt jump from movin cars

---   Didnt have to 

You always beat everyone

---   Ey didnt beat anyone
Ey was the only who ever went

    

Life my friend is but a joke

0836,  Friday,  11  3. 16
0149,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  16  3. 16