when he learned a new word he used it 

                                            much to the dismay of those he spoke to

histheir Saving Grace

                        he didnt talk to many people 

he read a German term

stood him on his head

he loved how it looked 

                           augenblick

reading furthur he discovered there wasnt a true English translation 

                                                                         there go the Germans again

Germans and Jews crushed it they had words for seemingly everything under the sun

   augenblick  is the feeling of a second as measured with a slow eye blink 

                                                                                reminded him a sustained glance Whawoud that be in German 

                   he worked for a company that operated on the groundsamong the housings of collegeaged kids his signature was needed on corporate paperwork which acknowledged he could be fired for committing a sustained glance 

Whas tha 

You know what it is. getting her panties in a bunch

   Define it 

             Seems overtly subjective  so define it objectively

the exec said I think we . .

. . Excuse me  No  We 

                         Please define it explicitly  because the terminology is too vague for me to understand  to commit my name beneath

he riled her Let me . . . paused he wondered what she was calling him in that secondwha he woud have given to be a mind reader . . put it this way, if you don’t sign it, that’s also grounds to be fired. 

                                                                               pleasedsmug she crossed her arms over her flat chestGotcha! cat that ate the canary

he smiled large in her face in the space where he was to sign he wrote UNDER DURESS  then signed  handed it to her

she looked unamused he was thrilled You can’t write under duress, corporate won’t accept it.

I suppose that might be a conversation for some other time  You have my signature

   had corporate knew German wrote augenblick  he would have been tempted to sign

 

What did you say?

In a heartbeat in an augenblick

Augenblick? 

               You’ve been reading again.

Yes Yawanna know

   No. I’ll take heartbeat, I know that.

Ill not stop  Augenblick

No you wont, but I’ll hear it as heartbeat.  I’m good.

1250,  Sunday,  23  10. 22

1411,  Saturday,  19  11. 22

Soolking & Heuss L’enfoire  Mal a la Tete  (Bad to the Head)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lCOyJPFOb8

uninhibitid parked its asswiggled it deep into the couch of his sleeping brain

You got this? hypnagogia asked

Me? I thought it was yoursyour fingerprints all over it.  hypnopompia replied

Not mine.

I don’t want it. 

                they stuffed their hands into their pocketsHANDS OFF shrugged vapourised effervescently  Fizzies flavouring water 

his Dreamed-self didnt have pocketswas naked  he shrugged   Whell

                                                                          he was asking his Dreaming-self 

Whell wha

              I suppose we run with it

they were left holding the bag

                              three vinyl U-shaped booths on a wall in a breakfast joint  a plainclothes detective on either end  a German Shepherd sat between them in the middle booth  a police officer  Officer brown and a dog  Officer BAD they were distracted  B A D rolling through their collective vision compound bugeyes  B A D occasionally shuddered skipped skip stutteredthrobbed interrupted by B I D body in a duffel  that the cop nearest the door dragged in smearing blood across the checkered linoleum floor and leaned between his booth and theirs 

                                                                                                  Ya know what’s in there? he grumbled

 

Coudguess  they were speaking in one voice

I didn’t ask you to guess. 

                            You know what’s in the bag?

  No  Coud only make a guess

I can tell you.

Cant imagine why you woud 

                               Officer BAD stuck their wet nose in Dreameds ear  Dreaming felt it in his too retreating the Shepherd transformed into a uniformed policewoman

                                                             she smiled lasciviously and said  I can be a real bitch. What’s in the duffel?

I don know

she leaned in againwhispered Let me buy you a drink. Dreaming didnt hear she licked his earlobe leaned back Dreaming felt her tongue on his ear 

                           It’s a body shot in the top of the head, bagged.  B A D  B A D  B A D  B A D  B I D 

B A D  B I D . . . 

                      Dreamed rubbed their bugeyes  Drink? bitch whispered again 

A wellprovisioned spicy Bloody Mary very little ice   Two  Dreaming smacked his lips in anticipation

You.  Not him.

Then no thank you 

                 B I D  B A D  B A D  B A D  B A D  B I D   B A D  B I D . . .

Thas enough  Dreaming said as he leaned across bitch tapped Dreamed in the chest with the back of his hand  Were out of here snapped his fingers 

                                  B A . . anhe woke                                      

he rubbed his head over where uninhibitid sat where a depression in the couch remained

. D  B A D  B I D skittered in his eyes then shatteredshards flashing in the sunlight vapourised

earlyAM,  Saturday,  19  11. 22

1111,  Saturday

Noire & Blanche  You Never Told You I’ll Miss You That Much  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwVZNFMIHaU