1.5.19




:  :  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 


dogs an cats

whether one had one or the other was a statement regarding their personality


dogs
      whether one cared to admit it or nottheyre dragged around behind their animal

they gather up its shit 

a dog wouldnt make you cleanup after them
                                               but if you were a worthwhile human beingif you were cool you picked up after them  

unfortunately hes had to heave more than one handful of dogshit at a dogowner than he cared to admit

dont pick it up


you wear it



he had cats 

there wasnt a choice whether or not to cleanup their catboxes after them

at least he didnt have to walk themdidnt have to worry whether or not they were spending quality time together

cats are independent

he was independent

dogs werent


neither were they who had a dog

they needed attention
                      were needy 

they needed happiness to be made for them  rather than providing their own



hed rather go to hell than put that onus on another human being

2213,  Sunday,  28  4. 19
1444,  Monday,  29  4. 19


he looked down into his drink  a Redbreast 15 neat  he mused at its quiet prism through the liquor through the crystal tumbler play on the handrubbed bar  She gave me her number

I should to call

Yes his brother-in-law said  You should.


I should
          Though I wonder how many times shes given her number out

2228,  Sunday,  28  4. 19
2352,  Monday,  29  4. 19