he had too many thoughtswords going
through in his head at any given moment and when someone came alongthrough no
fault of their own inadvertently per se and added another spoonful of sugar it ticked him off
the tick sounded
particularly loud when it was family
and the fact was their
only access to him was through a telephone or cellfone yet another nemesis tick the irritation was more sharp more grating
his brotherinlaw wouldnt quit
sending him the word ratiocination a
word that seemingly thrilled him a
vocabulary word of Harris and Hitchens – the activitythe process of
reasoning he texted him Think Sherlock
Holmes
then hot on his heels was
his brotheryounger by a year who want to
discuss their sister who died nearly two years prior and how she and her husband
and daughter shunned the family – he could write shunned now – but had
misplaced the word for better than an afternoon and whichas he thought on it again
and again he had badly managed with rebuffed and
spurned both incorrect and inferior . . words crowded his head like mercury
bent on reforming after a thermometer is dropped and broken on the floor
a
keen way to learn if your linoleum floor was level or not
Shunned Since
youre using the word I assume you know it
Of course.
Tell me
You know it.
I know it Before I respond to your remarks I want to
know what you understand shun to mean
It means ignore, or reject.
Okay
Okay, what?
Take that into context regarding what you
just said to me
You asserted for the last
eighteen years first horseshit You pull
eighteen out of your ass Sisters been
dead two years she suffered her cancers for ten years not nine months of remission
between her breast an the onset of her ovarian cancer an yawanna tell me that she and hers shunned
the rest of the family while undergoing chemo almost every other week for
months at a time
They shunned you
They did.
Lets examine how fuckin
ridiculous your words are
Three people shunnedlets do the
fucking math shall we Mom and Dad . two
. . your family . four . six . . Robins family and offspring . seven . thirteen
. . Toms family and offspring . ten . . twentythree . Joe .one . . twentyfour .
Marys family . five . . twentynine . David and his wife . two . . thirtyone
Thirtyone people majority
adults were shunned by three adults while they contended with Sisters cancers
Thats horseshit
What it also is is rank family
bullying the silent treatment the cold shoulder It was cruel It was unnecessary And it began shortly
after Sister was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008
Mom set the stage Dad had to live with herhe wasnt going to
cross her he submitted And then the
rest of you just went along with it
They didnt shun you
Thats what you did to them
An very fortunate for all of you then
I lived on the West Coast
I disagree.
As youre welcome to
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