her birth day  Friday 

How are you going to celebrate?

Hmm  celebrate 

                    Curiously  my mind flipped your question  celibate Are you asking if Im celebrating my celibacy on my  birth   day

Ohno, not, no . . No, that wasn’t what I was asking, not my intent. 

                                                                        Although if I may, there’s a quiet angst to your voice . . a palpable derision, or anger . in your words.

Look how perceptive you are 

                               I wonder however if you hadnt seen memy faceexpressions  my posture  if you were blind to those aspects  if you would be as perceptive

I can’t say, that wasn't our circumstance; we only know what we know, we can’t effectively or accurately surmise what we don’t know, can we?

Can we 

         Can we   I hate questions like that  Rhetorical  Questions that flatly dismiss the possibility that we might know without an actual event unfolding or as evidence  It prefigures a shortcoming short circuits our innate abilities and demandsinculcates that we cannot know  we cannot Know without an event having precipitated 

                                                                                                      I believe with high accuracy  that even denied an event we can know  Perhaps not indubitably  but we can knowwe can disregard febrile authentic knowing  which we kneel beforedenigrate ourselves 

                                                                  We do not actually need them to know to know ourselves or our realities if you would

 

That’s a huge order, an enormous leap of faith.

No  No I have to disagree  It is solely our assessment an intimacy that we cannot possibly share with anyone else no matter how intimate our connection with them

Hypotheticals  thought experiments  we ask ourselves or should ask of ourselves she laughed brusquely We can ask ourselves because we are where the rubber meets the road the intersect  youll please excuse the word vector  we are vectors

If we are harsh with ourselves I am I donknow if you are or can be harsh with yourself  We can be telling 

                                                                                                                 Or we can ultimately be dismissive 

I choose not to be 

That’s one helluva thought experiment. I wouldn’t have conceived of or considered it if you hadn’t said.

Really

I ain’t blowing smoke up your ass. No. I wouldn’t have.

You have a way of thinking of things very differently.

Thank you

Thank you.  Thank you. 

                           Happy Birthday. 

2344,  Thursday,  8  4. 21

241 or 1441, Saturday,  10  4. 21   

Erykah Badu  Certainly  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWf6M467OsQ