they finished dinner barbecued ribeye green peppers sweet onions
green salad sliced tomatoes basil drizzled with olive oil
sipped beers watched the fire in
the firepit and spoke
they were incessant talkers tireless swimming among subjects as bright as colourful and as plentiful as a
pit of childrens playballs
until subjects politics tiltedtipped them darkly and they were forced to swim in the chilly viscous
effluvium of their unfortunate reality
that talk forced them to
cleanse their palates with tumblers of chilled Laphroaig Islay Single Malt
Laphroaig Islay Single Malt his
brother-in-law would say Sounds like an incantation his brother-in-law said it every time he served
him an assurance and as consistent as the tides the moon as their
enthusiastic conversation of women once enjoyed or never unquenched flames
. . . when a corporations model
is do more with less specialists fall away then were left bereaved with soddy halfass work no one takes pridetakes ownership of their
labour they produce a crappy product as an adjective chinese
Quantity Cheap Replaceable Are you replaceable Is life so cheap . . . He couldn’t find his
ass with both hands in a sunlit room and someone calling to him You’re cold, cold,
you’re getting colder . . . Reparations . . . It’s ridiculous to consider; how
would you disperse it properly? . . . If its given to black people to black
communities its dispersed properly Seems
to me few in the past were interested that black slave labour poweredhad
powered the nation and that even fewer white men made fantastic fortunesmade
enormous money by their cruelty on the backs of other human beings . . .
Do you know what bliss is
Bliss? I can think of many things
that are blissful.
For example
Example. Albeit unfortunate. That I had to say I love you, I love you; however I can’t say
that I like you at all. After the fact I felt relief, and bliss.
Ouch
Tit for tat.
coyly Are we slipping wily back into our conversation
of sex
No. Cryinoutloud. Bliss. What is bliss to you?
or did you simply elicit it, invoke it, to provoke me?
Youre glass is empty Care to be touched up a refill then afterwards Ill tell you my bliss
Ah. You’re implying that a refill
is required if you’re going to divulge your bliss.
I hadnt considered that however now
that youve broached it yes Youll have to be touched up . . isnt that a more attractive way of saying refilled
It is. Yes, would you?
I can
he poured his brother-in-law
another three fingers poured one liberally
for himself he was home he didnt have to worry about driving for the fact of the matter his brother-in-law
didnt have to worry about driving either he could crash the night on the couch it was a small one-bedroom house barely large
enough for himself and his bookshis library his antilibrary
There you go then he held his glass up his brother-in-law raised his they tapped them together Heres mud in your eye
Yes. Mud in your eye.
they sipped
You know where thats from
You’re gonna tell me it’s from German
or the Jews; they have a word or a phrase for everything, right? that’s your
contention . .
.
. They do But no
What remains
Remains? Okay.
The Bible . .
. . Give that
man a cigar
Are you kidding me?
No Im not kidding you
And?
I wanted suspense to
build a bit . . it is a wonderful thing to share knowledge that someone doesnt have
. .
.
. That someone is ignorant of . .
.
. Of course dispatch ignorance with
extreme prejudice I wish it were that easy
And?
Christ youre impatient Ill bet you give lousy head . .
. .
Whatthefuck you talking about now . .
. . Patience My buddy Bobby always said All comes to he
who waits I think he got that from
spiders although I know otherwise
In the Bible too?
Youre hanging around your sisters
too much All their intellect reason is formed
in the miserable crucible the weakflimsy bowl of the Bible They ought to get
their heads up and look around
You continue to say; you harp on
me.
I harp Theyre adultstheyre big girls they can
withstand your disagreementyour atheism Wrong How do you say . . ah your
agnosticism
Violet Fane
Excuse me?
Violet Fane A pseudonym
Easier to remember Violet Fane She wrote All good things come to those who
wait
I sexualized it as I am wont I usually sexualise things Brings my comment to the forefront of any conversation
Sex usually does.
Better than blood
Than blood?
If it bleeds it leads Id rather watchread sex than murder mayhem bloodletting
Ah. I follow.
Yes I lead by example
Youre lost arent you
Frankly I am. I don’t know where
we are in this conversation.
I apologise Ive lathered it with incidentals that occur
to meyou know me although Ive laid unraveled a ball of thread to help find our way out of the Minotaurs lair Im a modernday Theseus the Zeus Never use breadcrumbs like Hansel and Gretel Youll get lost then a ghastly nasty witch will eat you
There’s that. Care to bring
me back up to speed?
Mud in your eye
Ohman, yes, mud in your eye. What
about mud in your eye?
Biblical
Great, of course it is.
Jesus spit in the earth and
rubbed the mud in a blind mans eye to heal restore his vision
Mud in your eye
We are visual being humans
visual human beings
Or what is voyeurism for
Man oh man, you're something else.
Biblical
An not that Im biblical by any
means but to answer your question in regards to my
bliss as I understand your bliss came about My bliss . . my bliss is entering my home my livingroom without contending with the harping
carping the shrill of television
Television
asif it were some critical lifeline necessary bloodline that we cant do
without
There are other sources of information
and knowledge
An those I employ an enjoy
My bliss is no television
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