he flipped to the next page

                           Sonofagun thats not supposed to be there  empty  a naked page gazed up at him

Whacha lookin at? 

Lookin at you Wharelse ya suppose Im lookin

Surprise! Obviously not what you expected. 

No was not  fiftysixty pages . . 

. . Fiftyfour pages actually, an since it’s an old Laboratory Science Notebook you have to double it, onehunredeight pages, white pages, yellow, carbons provided to place between them to copy the experiment onto the yellow, onehunredeight pages anya come up on an empty page . . I’m damnnear grateful you didn’t blush . Kahrist.

Yaint lettin me sli . .

. . You don’t get to slide, particularly with that peevish look that swept across your face. Your fault.

                                                                                                        You're pitching, I’m receiving.

Stopstop Lemme check my back pocketwha coloured bandanna Im flyin

Really? Wanna play faggot to get out of this? Miserable. How low can you go?

For selfpreservation . . as low as I need to

That’s very unlike yo . .

. . Maybe  but I don like beating myself up

Don’t have to. You should have seen itrecognised it and immediately threw the first punch, threw a haymaker . . right? like your great granddaddy . Haymarket Square . . family ducked a bullet then . but it put food on the table . . an as your granddaddy knew, every riot needs instigators, agent provocateurs . wasn’t a bad gig as long as you didn’t get caught.

He didn’t.

No Didnt  Family myth

Not myth, lore. Your granddaddy got away with it. He had to threaten a lot of people to keep their mouths shut, which wasn’t hard, not for him, it wasn’t hard to compel people when they knew he’d already killed someone, his street cred preceding him.

Street cred  Can suppose it di . .

. . Know it did. Life in Chicago, life around the world turns on thugs, turns on gangs, until the pendulum is forced to swing in the other direction.

                             Swinging. Curious, huh?  Pendulums and cocks are similar.

Thats a hot one

You’re not refuting me?

I am not  As a matter of fact that sounds like something I might sayought to be coming out of my mouth

Your mouth? out of your mouth?

                                  It is. You think Notebooks talk?

Ill tell ya  no telling what I can think

                                       Yare proof

I am at that, a naked page you just clothed.

                                               Although I’m not the shy one.   Yaremember your daughter telling you You’re the modest one, Dad, I'm not.

Well she was right

Out of the mouth of babes, huh?

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