:  :  late  i’ll txt morensoon

72 hours earlier

                     not a letter a breath  a nod   since

no news is good news 

                        or because he was becoming impatient a task in itself it could also mean death  something someone had died

these thoughts presentedran their fingers through the loose coils of his brain  absently he penned CONVENIENCE IS NOTHINGNESS 

               it made sense when he wrote it  but this morningdrinking black seed tea a bag of ginger turmeric herbal tea suspended in it he couldnt make sense of either convenience or nothingness  separately they made sense  but not together 

their quietude was beginning to irk himhe irked himself 

why hadnt he elaborated or did he believe then it was apparent and he didnt have to extend his thoughts

now he wish he had

thinking back on writing itjust because something appeared at the top of the page didnt necessarily mean that those words occurred to him first  he was in a bad habit  he circulated across a page  it also didnt mean anything if words began at the lefthand indexthey might not have begun there  sometimes looping arrows crisscrossed the text  phrases were written upside down  he turned the page upsidedownhe couldnt write upsidedown but he could print or write backwards Jeanine Flannery taught him in high school if only she hadnt been so painfully thin

what had he meant

or had his growing frustration with her scribbled it

to frustrate him even more       

0714,  Friday,  26  4. 19

1015,  Monday,  29  4. 19

The Milk Carton Kids  Michigan  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEDnGAvjQXw