he met her on a patio under a fireorangetinged
propane heater
Anybody sitting here
she shook her head
he took it as a No and sat sat six feet from her Trump virus is a bitch
Buy ya a beer
If you like.
If thats your attitude yacan buy
me a beer
he waved the server over
Shell
have another of wha shes havin and Ill have a Pizza Port Swami Her tab please Thank you
the server didnt question her and
went off with their order
Thank you very much
Thank you? First you ask if you can sit, then you order
drinks on my tab?
Awshit my mistake Mother may I
Motherfuck, you already did,
may’s gone byebye.
Yes I did
I wanted to be sure I had your
attentionseems I have I usually forego this
questionhate it frankly but were out
the gate unorthodox
Unorthodox?
Yah I like ityou may not when things to serve my purposeHate the question
Whadaya do Im a pimp Just so were on equal footingIve answered the
pingpong question that invariably rises if one thinks theyre being
interrorgated
Interrorgated? A pimp?
YahNah Not reallyfirst thing that came to mind You
First thing that comes to mind or
what I actually do . .
. . For a living
First thing expired ya fucked that up I hope yer not a teacher Id think yad have to be able to think on yer
feet to teach
I am a teacher.
Teaching cretins
Excuse me?
Cretins
I teach First Grade
Cretins
First graders are cretins?
Todays children are cretins
Sounds like a clever
book titlehuh
Sounds like you don't think much
of children.
Ohon the contrary I have three Three girls
Each one born older and wiser than me but that was years ago
the server approached their table
with two tapped beers and set them down before them
Thank you doll he said
the server made a quick smile couldnt suppress it You’re welcome. almost got a curtsey out of her
Doll? she asked
Yah There are certain sexist misogynistic quaint
slights ones gotta keep alive an breathin
Gotta?
Yah Yawanna call me a prick Misandry
singsongy
Yasay misandry I say misogyny Misandry
Misogyny Lets not call the whole thing
off Just gettin warm
First grade
teacher huh
ZOOM Zoom zoom
Hows the ZOOM indoctrination workin out for ya Twodimensional indoctrination ZOOM socialization Keep this shit up cretins wont have to
interface face to face
Technologys banking on it
Technology
profits
Poor prophylactics
Cretins teachers lose out But no one more than the
kids Thought Id change up cretins to
kidsya cringed when I say cretins
Why does cretins cross your mind?
Thats what were becoming State colluding with Tech its easier to govern a spoonfed unthinking
uncritical population I cant find the
quoteI wont stop tryin Im paraphrasing Hitler though Id prefer the
actual quoteactual words mebbe learn them in German
Donknow wha to say Gimme a ZOOMland story one please
Ill pick up the tab for one story
One
Alright.
Excellent Were playin
Are you familiar with how ZOOM
operates?
No
Are all your students on screen at once
No. Thirteen in the first session, eleven in the
second. Three weeks in I thought I’d
have some fun with them and turned the color off, presented myself in black and
white; it took them more than twenty minutes to recognise I wasn’t in color.
A little girl saw it first
Yes. How did you know?
I had girls They notice everything right down to gifts from Santa Claus wrapped in Christmas paper that was also used by the family to her
Sharp
cookies
Yes. She askedsuddenly, Miss Mabille, why are you
gray? Are you feeling okay?
I told her I was fine. I also said that years ago people on
television . .
.
. Tryin to liken ZOOM to TV
It is, wouldn’t you agree? Anyway, years ago people were seen in gray-scales.
Yes
So she said Do you mean that people
long ago were gray?
Ohmy
Isn’t that precious?
It is
Still cretins?
Yup
they departed after another
beer left cretins behind and discussed politics
religion and sex and sex You
talk about sex a lot. I think youre thinking of sex a lot Im only mentioning
it because you seem interestedenthralled
Actually I was using it as a devise as songwriters use a refrain seemed reasonable Really? No earlier he caught her unsuspectingshe bellylaughed unexpectedly hard when he rallied
heatedly on cunning linguists
he picked up the tab
Well thank you This was so much better than I could have hoped for this evening
Yes, it was fun, thank you. Goodnight.
Gnight
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