It took their wives to die for
them to get together again.
That’s a horrible thing to say.
Sometimes the truth is horrible.
they were trying to keep up in
one anothers life
one had remarried
the other was maintaining a long
distance relationship that no one could get their heads aroundnot that it was
theirs to understand approve or remark on
when theyd get tantalisingly
close he told them they were on thin ice he didnt question their relationships he assumed knowing them as he did that they werent abject
idiotsmiserable in their relationships No one has to be unhappy Im not
for their trying often at weeks removed they did finally assemble at local
breweries and enjoy what oneFourth Quarter called a putsch
What the fuck is thatputsch sounds like something I wouldnt want to step inhave to scrap off my shoes with a stick
A putsch
Saying it again isnt saying what
it is Ill be deliberate What is a putsch
It is a violent attempt to
overthrow a government The Beer Hall
Putschappropriate huh was the failed coup attempt by Hitler why he went to jail
. .
. . Where he wrote Mein Kampf
Exactly
Putsch Didnt know that But then we usually tell each other something we didnt know prior to getting together
Its nice And considering our current state of
affairsthe prick in officethe other pricks hes putting in charge of departments
theyve publicly intimated they want to see destroyed having a putschI thought was perfect to call our time together We always share a beer
Yes always have a
beer Oils the jaws an tongue an foments
the mind
Exactly
You use exactly a lotdont
apologise I prefer exactly to
riiight I have no idea when that entered
our American vernacular Makes everyone
who uses it sound like a dizzy blondenot to stereotype
Quick with not to stereotype
Yabetcha I know everyone is themselves an therell
never be another like them but you do
have to have a filing systema thresher to separate the chaff from the kernels
A thresher I dont know if many people know what a
thresher is today
Awh grew up not far from McCormicks
Cantigny theres a fantastic agriculture
machinery museum I loved looking at
their Paleolithic steel skeletons an bones
An in that bent I talked with a
teenager yesterday who didnt know who Jimi Hendrix was or even if he knew
Jiimis musicfuckin unAmerican I told his
old man he wasnt holding up his end as the boys father
How did you get to Jimi
Creedence Clearwater Born on the
Bayou it was playing above us an I mentioned to them it was nice to hear Creedence
playing Father nodded Kid went blank I said You know CCR Creedence double e Creedence Creedence Clearwater Revival the band whose song is playing over our
heads
Man fuckin unAmerican
You didnt say that
I didnt say that
You wanted to say that
I wanted to say that
Usually you would
Usually but not while Im working
Yeah There is that
Yeah I was temptedI dont like my history not
recognised Worse not known
This aint ancient shit I knew the music preceding me Whats life without music Ignorance
Fourth Quarter nodded
You were a teacher What are they teaching kids nowmy girls are
both almost twenty years out of high schoolyou retired three years ago
Four years
Aint twenty your fingers closer
to the pulse
I taughtwhich you know was an extension
high school Troubled kids
Pregnant girls arent
troubled They just trouble the community
Yes There is that too
Howbout faith What do you have faith in
Faith Why do you want to go there
Well politics sex religion Whats the point of a putsch if we cant touch
all the hot spots there are to touch that are typically dissuaded declined for
polite company we aint polite
No A putsch isnt polite
BINGO
Faith
Yes faith
I have faith in myself my
sons I like to believe I have faith in
my familysisters an brother though Id be
dishonest if I didnt say I temper that faithdont put too much on itinvest too
much in them
he hmmd in agreement
And you What do you have faith in
I have faith theres no god
Monday
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CCR Born on the Bayou https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIjUY3pjN8E
