from behind someone bumped his
shoulder
A penny for your thoughts.
he hafturned laughed
Bruce ya sneakinup on me
A herd of elephants could sneak
up on you. I walked past the window, you were looking out, I thought you saw me,
I waved. You kept looking, you didn’t. I haven’t nowhere to be so I
thought I’d take a chance and come in, have a cup of coffee with you. You weren’t
writing, I looked at your table and didn’t see any paper or pen.
he cleared his throat he hadnt
talked with anyone today save the attendant to order black coffee in a mug
No No Got em here but Im thinking just now
Again, a penny for your thoughts.
Ante up
Bruce laughed
Who carries money let
alone change these days? I got plastic, you accept VISA or MasterCard?
Gimme a moment
he pushed back
away from the table rose walked aimlessly around the shop his head
down stopped squattedpicked up something walked back to the table
he held out his hand nickel dime two pennies handing a penny to Bruce he sat againpulled
the chair closer to the cafe table
Now ante up
Bruce laughed again pushed the penny under his fingertip across
the table to Joe
A
penny for your thoughts.
his turn to laugh
I should have thought to
negotiate Idiot This pennyll buy you more than you care to
hear
I’ll be the judge of that.
Nah yare fidgetyyouve always
been Couldnt sit still when we were kids Make a side betfive bucks Ohwait never
mind I wouldnt be able to collect for a while Nevermind
I said I’ll be the judge of that.
Ive prejudged you Minority Report Philip K. Dick Precrime
I didn’t know you had such low expectations
of me.
Its your penny
Remember Im just thinking but were getting off track
I was
thinking about the outbreak of STDs in old age homes Gawd Bless Em
What are you talking about?
You hadnt heard
Imagine Eighty years oldpossibly with the same man or
woman your whole life children family
get your ass parked in a homeNOW you contract an STDyour first Wasnt a risk your whole life prior Then infected in a facility
I don know if thats ironic black
humour or just fucking hilarious
Jesus, Joe, I . ah . . no, hadn’t
heard . . though it ain’t funny.
You don think thats funnyI think its
a scream
Like a man being born into a womans body or a woman in a mans think more
often the latter It would take that kind
of woman to emasculate themselves
I appreciate their
dilemmaI do But also got to appreciate
that Gawds got a fucked up sense of humour an some people get on their knees to Him at least you knew where you stood if you
crossed a Greek god or goddess Theyd
turn you into a worm or stone at a glance
make you have sex with animals and an Like it
Jesus, man.
Your penny But I have a solution
When my daughter was an RA resident advisor
in college on her livingroom coffee table she had this huge glass globe
fishbowl I walked up to it inside were all these colourful wrappers I thought they were individually wrapped
chocolates a place card before it Help Yourself
Chocolates, huh, bet she saw lots
of residents with that as bait.
She did see lots of residents
They were condomsfuckin Glow-in-the-Dark Flavoured Studded Ribbed
Warming Pleasure-Shaped Coloured Kiss-of-Chocolate Kiss-of-Mint French Ticklers
Tingling Pleasure condoms for both partners fuckinfucking
Edible condoms
I helped myself At the very least had to replace the one in my wallet
You what?
I helped myself Why not
Kids today lack rites of passagestolen out from under them
Rites of Passage?
Yah
What rites?
Having to go to a pharmacy buy
rubberstheyre kept behind the counter ask a pharmacists help
But Ill go one betterId
bet no fuckin American male would do this to become a man
To become a man.
Rite of Passageits a fuckin rite
of passage Do not pass Go Do not collect
twohunred dollars
Yes to become a man
Alright, listening, I’m listening.
Not one American male.
No Not one
Maasai tribe Kenya Of old A boy had to kill a lion with a spear
Spartan
agoge thirteen year training starts at seven It means raising
Not
one American male
Boys and girls gypped
What’s a girl’s rite of passage?
Ask a girl
Anso not to get off the beaten pathconclude my
tirade ailing STD-dosed elders the leg up
A big glass globe fishbowl of colourful
individually wrapped Viagra Cialis Levitra Stendra anfor the wholesome nonchem souls in another
globe they can chew on Tribulus T-levels baby Maca Red ginseng Fenugreekthats a fun onehuh
Saffron Ginkgo biloba L-citrulline also
abundant in watermelon watermelon watermelon
What are you doing?
Riffin just riffin
This is
exhaustingfucking penny for your thoughts
Although you didnt bug
Mustve been the sex
Sex sells.
It do at dat
1621, ReggaeFriday,
22 10. 21
1231,
Saturday, 30 10. 21
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