Can you remember the last funeral procession you were in?

Yah Mine  I was on the 405

Fuck. Yah. Ditto.

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Im being shadowed by squirrels Better hide Joe his father would say Theres a squirrel looking for a nut he was tagteamed they handed him off  they accorded his procession their braying and chattering

he finally mentioned it to a coworker

What are you talking about?

Im being shadowed Youll remember I told you about the squirrel that disappeared from off the top of a fence as I walked to the gym

Stop.

Stop

Yes. I’m confused. Maybe I wasn’t listening well enough. So when you said it disappeared  it disappeared?

Youve known me better than a year  Im not hyperbolic  Not a go-to of mine

No.  But you get creative . .

. . Im creative in absurd circumstances  Im not one prone to hyperbole outside that

No.  No, you’re not.

Im a little troubled youre not listening to me   I listen to you

You do. You probably listen to me better than anyone I know, my mom included.

I do  Its called communication   How can I dare offer you anythingfor what its worth . .

. . For what it’s worth! . .

. . if I havent heard youlistened to what you say

For what it’s worth . . your questions to me are incisivewhy I talk to you, they’re spot on, half the time I haven’t consider them, related to them myself.

Its hard to be objective when the object you scrutinise is yourself 

Yes. There is that

Theres always that  A quote for youPlato  An unexamined life is not worth living  Socrates revealed Platos quote during his trial in threeninetynine B.C. he stood trial before a jury of five hundred accused of refusing to recognise the gods recognised by the stateChrist and for corrupting the youth for his troublehis life he was found guilty he was condemned forced to drink a cup of hemlock poison  he was his own executioner

Yes.  I have heard of them.

But you dont know them

I don’t.

I do a little Ive read them though its been a long time since

My point however take the time to stop and smell the roses

Be mindful.

Christ Mindful  Id rather you not say thatparticularly to me  Theres more than a thousands apps today that can be downloaded into your smartphone to remind you to be mindfulFUCK
I dont have a smartphone or ever will

Eventually you will. They’ll make you. They won’t support your technology.

They willwhoever they are Talk and text The primacies of the devise Those functions will be there as long as the phone is They outreach your access to the World Wide Web its twodimensional Tower of Babel Library of Alexandria though reduced reduced by the myriad Mister Rogers Neighbourhoods people form align themselves with or want to be a part of

Youll have to excuse me These new technologies platforms unregulated irresponsible  their thoughtless algorithms their slick divining get me hot under the collar  an elsewhere  

Understood. You can roll on.

The squirrel disappeared. Now you’re being followed by squirrels.

Precisely Im being handed off Ill be paralleledthe squirrel will stop when we reach the end of the block itll chatter yaknow their irritated soundtheir barks Then into the next block another squirrel appears and they shadow me Even after I cross over El Camino Realthats a wide thoroughfare its litteredthat sounds extreme more than casually Ill find squirrels in the road flattened blood spattered dried leathery remains on its gravel shoulders  a killing field Yet even crossing El Camino since the squirrel disappeared Im shadowed there by others too

What do you make of it?

Nothing  Its an observation is all

Does it concern you?

No  My dad buried any concern I might have regarding squirrels

Your Dad?

Yeah  Better hide Joe Theres a squirrel looking for a nut

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