he didnt care for her officeits décor its lightness she was proud telling him
she had a budget to make it up for herself
problem with that boast was that she was entirely on displaydown
to her fucking knickknacks we all do where we livewhat we readour knickknacksour
highbrowour tacky women dislikesome recoil
from tacky apparently it was made for children
and men
any superficial interests that may
have reared in his heads waned then dissipated
he didnt think he had a
particularly high bar or threshold
he said as much
his daughters said otherwise Seemingly a single facet can throw you off the
scent Dad
For example
Alright Vegetarian
You wouldnt see a woman if she was a vegetarian
A veggieNo I wouldnt
There you go Your example
Checkmarked Xed out their hands acting it out Buhbye
No I have to disagree Thats overall health If someone cant open their mouthslook in a
mirror an see their teeththeir canines incisors the mouth of an omnivore well if someone can delude themselves that they arent
what they are then theres no telling what else they might think or do
Besides a woman who doesnt eat meat why would they put a cock in their mouth
Oh for cryinoutloud Dad
Dont oh for cryinoutloud me Youre adults Tell me youve
put away childish things Daddy Yes Im your father an your mother an I raised
you to be a competent intelligent reasoned adult therefore I treat you as adults
I dont pull punchesparticularly pull punches
with people who I deem are my equals an better
An youre both better than either meno big hurtle or your mother a big
hurtle But thats the synthesis we wanted
practical devoid of as much prejudice as we could muster
because we came out of a lot it ourselves
We werent going to propagate it
You gonna come up for air
Ah you know mesometimes I get on a tear an cant shaddup Youve heard it all before
they nodded Yes Thats
exactly what our Daddy told us
Stop
theyd laugh joyfully
yeah he tried to look past her polish dress an
makeup hoping she might be natural under itplaying to some enforced
dressup
he was wrong
she sipped the KoolAid
he saw her mouth was movinghe
missed what she said he was too busy listening to his girlstheir
accusation Im sorry I was distracted What was it you said
she repeated herself
I think youve broken the rules
Rules
Yes That when you first meet leave politics
religion an sex for some other time
I thought this was some other
time
This Midday
Sunlight This
We know each other . .
.
. Superficially Met through casual
acquaintances
Friends
Perhaps friends of yours Theyre only casually acquainted with me Hello
How are you Nice weather todayhuh
Theyre usually
ah . .
.
. Selective Canaries in a coal mine
Thats a little severe
Theyre a little severe Hence only acquaintances
You dont approve of my politics
No
Why
I dont think hes allowed to try an
coopt spirituals
I dont follow
he cleared his throat then softly began singing He thinks hes got the whole world in his hands
He thinks hes got the whole world
in his hands the itty bitty
baby in his hands you an me brother in his hands you an me sister
in his hands
he thinks hes got the whole wide world in his hands
You began saying but caught yourself then obliquely you went on to say he has things
in the palm of his hands but I think
you wanted to say has things by the
short hairs or by the balls yaknow more
vigorous more visual which naturally I think one would be incited
to say invigorated saying
Instead in your strongholdyour
place you censored yourselfwhy would you
do that youre certainly sure of yourself which is usually an attractive quality in a
person So why
There was something in your
eyes as if you glinted an opening I suppose I wanted to try and defuse it
No You dont know me enough to know that that
fuse is particularly short or Im hairtriggered regarding it
it wasnt an eerie silence
there wasnt anything to talk
about
turning towards the office door to leave he said You have nice digs then began humming the spiritual
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