Ah  a reprieve

              not masks for Trump virusNo he would continue to wear his till midJune at the earliest  recently he saw how people at the market reacted to him wearing his  he irritated themWhellShit they irritated him when the local market allowed people to enter unmasked if theyd been vaccinated and boosted OHhorseshitNo  NO THEY DIDNTa if confronted hed resort to his old standby

                                          Fuckya ifyacant take a joke

the reprieve he saw was in a restaurant bathroom timely  given that a Trump-appointed U S District judge Mizelle drizzle struck down the CDCs 2-week extension of the mask mandate head of the ABA – America Bar Association – Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary said that a majority of his group had deemed that Mizelle did “not meet the requisite minimum standard of experience necessary to perform the responsibilities required by the high office of a federal trial judge.” 

NO not that reprieve

                        the one posted in the uni-sex bathroom ALL EMPLOYEES MUST WASH HANDS BEFORE RETURNING TO WORK 

                         didnt say shit about patrons

                                                        which helped explain his reticence to shake a mans hand when meeting him might as well shake his cock he may not have done that either

reprieves come in all manner of shapes colours and sizes

                                                            particularly if one is white  theyre entitled

approximately 1300,  Twosday,  19  4. 22

a judge  https://www.npr.org/2022/04/19/1093566982/florida-mask-mandate-judge-kathryn-mizelle

pretty slick

          could suppose it might be bait for some peoplemake them curious senseless  they ought to know better  but it must work otherwise whomever did it wouldnt make the play  try and game others

had to assume the internet made a sucker every minute or more  P T Barnum had erivals

he opened his email account

evidently he emailed himself  Re: Confirmation

he didnt have to confirm himself  he was confirmation enough

was sitting in his studio by himself among others

                                                      they laughed with him a few at the back started singing Fools rush in where angels fear to tread Dorsey the bandleader vocals Sinatra  backslappinsnickerin abounding  Wha a peachwha a maroon   Yet people fall for it

                 Deydo

Lets be humble wedon 

                        but humble was lost on this crowd they HOWLED

ahwhadafuck let em

                       he joined in 

the neighbour in the apartment next door rapped on the wall SORRY SORRY GOT CARRIED AWAY   IM SORRY

he often forget that they were his denizens  only he could hear their jabs knocks gibberjabber offcolour remarks they were more often than not

he sat back in his chair

deleted the email among many others

then deleted all of them from the Deleted Items box

                                                      once again freshscrubbed and clean like a babys bottom

Was a good joke he said aloud but the others had gone off to wherever it was they went   

its a good thing to have a sense of humour

hmm some politickles remained nothing else of interest hed read them later  was meeting an old friend for coffee 

0947,  Twosday,  19  4. 22

Tommy Dorsey  Fool’s Rush In  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43-6Zip8KLg

two presented

“How can you know the present without it first becoming the past in the future?”

the griot Kouyate “I teach kings the history of their ancestors so that the lives of the ancients might serve them as an example, for the world is old, but the future springs from the past.” 

he would keep an eyeball peeled for the thirdthings come in threes  or

                                                                            was he supposed to play a part in the trilogy

unlikely

he read watched the original of many but rarely their sequels Stallone broke him of that

past

present

future

             things come in three

Time is fascinating

hed be patient

             hed make like the small brown squirrel who joined him on the sidewalk  it came out of a wild stand of trees grasses weeds which bordered a creek

he thought he might be surprised but wasnt

                                             taking the book from his face he put a finger in it closed ittucked it in his armpit and walked beside the squirrel  he let it set the pace

                                                                      they came upon a narrow dirt path that veered and descended to the water  the squirrel in no particular hurry   it left him on the sidewalk

                                                                                                  he watched it mosey

it stopped threefour times  sat on its haunches  nibbled young grass clover fallen acorns  he watched it until it went around behind high grass

couldnt say he walked with a squirrel before

it was small

he assumed young

maybe it didnt know any better or maybe it did or maybe it didnt care

he thought it might reemerge 

he waited 

                waited awhile

the characters in the book he was reading grew restless they wanted to continue their story  he conceded   he went off with them

patiently however  he was going to keep his eyes peeled

     

2001,  Monday,  18  4. 22

2339,  Monday

1st quote  pg205  Robin McLean  Pity the Beast

2nd quote  pg55  Teju Cole quotes in Black Paper 

griot  oral history tradition, storyteller