10.10.22


cats got into his papers againscattered them everywhere across the studio  looks like they had a ball

he wasnt upset

like people cats will be cats

the only daunting thing was that he didnt number the pages or date them he had written at a fever pitch the day beforeexhausted himself he went to bed without undressinglaid on top the blanket 
                                                                                        there were better than thirty pagesboth sides though curiously he failed when finishing a side to turn it rotate the bottom up whichhe usually did had he he would have halved his work IDIOT  Lamebrain
                                                                   anwhen he became consumedexcited his handwriting suffered  even he struggled to read it most people found his quiet handwriting illegible
he had his work cut out for him

he went at it with stubborn humour

after shuffling the pages togethergrateful the cats hadnt shredded any though they liberally puncturedtore holes with tooth or nail he put on his reading glasses to assemble them

ten minutes in he found what looked like beginhere if it was that was where he started next word was either stroll scroll scrawll he took liberties spelling if it suited him or his purpose the two were not the same 
                                                                                                      what followed was something like a text bubble cartoon bubble textburp cartoonburp evidently he couldnt make up his mindliked options they looked wet how does a simple line drawing look wet at their edges he could imagine they were silverlighted slick as spit expectorated crudely on the page 
                                    either stroll scroll scrawll an ancient bug swallowed in amber  an unidentified bug  Nope, never saw anything like that before.   Things got twelve legs   Is it two bugs? two insects six plus six is twelve.  Don see two heads   Me either.   So what did you mean   I don’t remember.   Its not even written in the same ink as the rest of the page   Like a lace a splash of magma.   Yah 


eventually he cobbled the piece together

if something would have given him a headache this ought to have done it

Knock on wood

zip headache

1341,  Thursday,  7  4. 22
231preferred,  Monday – Indigenous People Day,  10  10. 22


muzak

so unappealing
                who are the clowns that decide the crap pumped through speakers onto the heads into the ears of patronsconsumers 
                     perhaps it speaks to corporate worlds callous take-it-or-leave-it attitude their top-down quiet disdain Sssh . . We got em by the balls, where else they going to go? 
                                                         hed paraphrase vice-presidentthen president Calvin Coolidge after elected President Warren G. Harding died in office – the only good vice-president who ascended to the presidency after the presidents sudden death was Theodore Roosevelt -- the business of the America is business 
                                                                                                          thats their valuation of hard-earned American dollars their sacred bottom-line their exceptional indispensable primacy 

   perhaps 
              what did he know
although he knew crap when he heard it

he had to listen to it as the elevator rose
                                        entering in a rush behind him she pressed 20  Goddammit. she turned to him  apologetically  I’m terribly sorry . I meant 22.

he was riding to 28
                     Don sweat it accidents happen I appreciate your consideration  Thank you its fine

Thank you.

the doors shut they began to rise 
                                       OhmyGod I hate this music.

Muzak

Yes, correct, muzak.

You understand why they play it

Why?  There's a why?

he smiled it looked like she could take a joke despite the obvious dismay that chased her in

she smiled back 
                  I’ll bite . . why? 
he liked bite  looked like she could help herself to big mouthful 
                                                             Its to give people cover when they fart

OhmyGod! dismay fled her face she laughed mighty hard  didnt cover her mouth

1550,  Thursday,  6  10. 22
1038,  Monday – Indigenous People Day,  10  10. 22