outside having a beer admiring Ayo a white sage Okore a young oak they stood side by side
Ayo is Nigerian for joy
Okore Nigerian Asante Twi for eagle he
copped the names off Nnedi Okorafor out of her book Who Fears Death
the wind had finally let up two days
this afternoon hed gone from
windwhipped to sunbroiled
he was still trying to put out of
his mind his late morning beef with a swimmer at the edge of the gyms indoor
swimming pool
lane two
if you swam in lane two of the three
lanes and the others were being used you
had to share it with another swimmer
a six-three prick came in donned a mask snorkel and fins and dropped into the end of lane two where he
was swimming
hed seen this guy before saw him in the parking lot parking his swept late
model Benz coupe another silver spoon
like President Silver Spoon suffering 100 days of coequal branches of
government particularly an astute federal judiciary Silver Spoon brayed Who was an unelected
judge to stymie his good works he must have forgot that he got an unelected
judge to poach from the Supreme Court bench
an illegitimate president making an illegitimate nuclear placement maybe McConnell would wake up one morning sharing
his bed with a severed stallions head
Life imitating Art
he swam three laps with the
thrasher
then he exited the lane and took
a dry sauna
at the halfhour split Diver Dan
exited too
through the plexiglass panel in
the sauna door he saw him pulling the mask and snorkel off his head
he went out of the sauna onto the
pool apron to confront him Youre a rude
mutt You have a prescription that vows for
a physical disability that enables you to swim inside and clad as if you were
going swimming in the ocean
Excuse me
You settin me up to reply Theres
no excuse for you Youre rude Simply rude
The rule is . . .
.
. . That rule is for swimmers Ive never been
at a meet where one swimmer wears fins and a snorkel Cant swim without the gearI get it You an esquire Splitting hairs Mocking common sense
This is how I swim . . .
. . . And damn everyone
else I know you recognisedyou could see through
your mask you evicted the other two
swimmers with your thrashing
They didnt have to
No But they didnt want to put up with your
rupturedbroken porpoise display They
came to swimI came to swim not to put up
with your antics You got a
prescription for your disability Ill apologise
though somehow I dont think you do
because you dont think And I
think youve been entitled and that entitlement
is your thoughtless excuse not to take into account others around you Excuse us all to Hell Were just trying to live in your world
Too
bad no one had a harpoon to put you out of our misery
I just wanted you to know youre
rude Youre selfish
You cant talk to me like that
I can I wouldnt have had to if you hadnt enabled me So I have
I did Im done Things like this comes back on a person Im only sorry when it does I wont be around
to see it
Karma baby Karma
and as he walked the mile and a half
home his gym bag slung over his shoulder a book in his hands he kept getting
distracted from the book he kept
imagining shoving another silver spoon up his ass and turning him on a spit
between them Not fitting the crime A might too hyperbolic But then whats hyperbole for if not exaggeration and mayhaps soothing the wild beast
1606, Saturday,
29 4. 17
0926, Sunday,
30 4. 17
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days remaining or less
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