rolling past behind him in an old Ford pickup the bearded driver yelled You must live a charmed life, man!  he laughed heartily 

Yathink 

          he was crossing six lanes of trafficquickstepping through the fourthwaved to a woman driver who hesitantly went left behind him he waved the book he was reading in thanks and the paper he tucked inside it to jot notes slippedout fell onto the road she steered right a bit not to run it overhe went left behind her the paper folded used its wings to skipup the road away from him he gave chasecaught it stompedsnagged it and standingup he was coollyamazed   there was no traffic 

                                          except for the Ford  

casually he tucked the paper at the back of the book and finished strolling across the street            

Yathink

   Howbout tha I can scarcely believe it 

                                           Aint a soul gonna believe me if I tell em 

Aah but you don tell tales

I don unless I preface it tha I am

Youll have to start this one You wouldnt believe it but . . .

If you werent with mehere with me an I told ya woudya believe me

I woud because unexpected things happen to you on the regular

Im a fan

You are

Thawas ridiculously unexpected

                                   Woudave thought I mightave been kissin the grill of distracted driver who only saw thathe light was green  not some cat stooped over in the road

Charmed

  Im somethinged

1420,  Thursday,  29  6. 23

409preferred,  reggaefriday,  30  6. 23

Murder by Death  ‘52Ford  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn9QfUyBH7I

. . . didnt have much of a crack at life

No. But that's relative?

his shoulder tickedquivered ached whenever he got irritated it went off 

                                                                              Relative

he also spoke few words the fewer the more angry  he worked hard to pushdown redviolence going off inside him

oblivious Yes. Life is relative, lifespans relative.

For example

A fruitfly. A healthy outbred population can have a medium lifespan of 75 to 90 days. An amoeba, two days, however because they reproduce by dividing, fission, they are more or less immor . .

. . Shit examples

   A mayfly lives for a day or . .

. . A nymph

An aquatic larvae . . . possibly a year . poor example. 

Yasaid it

My pointthe point I’m trying to make is . . life’s relative.  he was getting irritated

Bothersome huh 

What?

Irritated

crossing a blacktop parking lot amid lots of cars in the aisle between the spaces he saw what looked like crumpledbut coudnt be leaves matted stuck together

No 

     Scant feathers  A dead chick

Appears to have fallenor was pushed from its nest

                                                    Aw comere little one  he bent over picked it up Didnt have much of a crack at life Im sorry walking towards a hedge holding it in his palm Im so sorry Likely yadave found life innarestin he scooped out a hole with his fingers and buried it Luck be I found ya though obviously you were ignored Had I been my old man Idave thrown ya in the trash  Chaps my hide

Im not irritated.

You irritated me chapped my hide 

                                      I don care for tha So pencil tha in somewhere soya don forget Thas a warning

Ya get one

What are you warning me about?

Ill leave tha to your imagination

1350,  Thursday,  29  6. 23

1122,  reggaefriday,  30  6. 23

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925443917303319#:~:text=A%20typical%2C%20healthy%20and%20well,11%5D%2C%20%5B12%5D.

Murder by Death  Those Who Left  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkXyIk22Wj8

the tacky old woodslat folding chair at the edge of the streetno sidewalks was empty  itd been eight days 

                                                                                                                where was the old man  somebody not as skinny would collapse it  

he wanted to knock at the house door   

old man let a room from his granddaughterwas determined to pay his way  I’m no freeloader, I’ll be damned if I burden anybody. 

           When I’m a burden Adios mis muy buenas amigas, bueno amigos . . not bad for an old white fart.

No not bad at all

What you reading, professor?

Im not a professor

You keep professing you aint . . that makes you one.

Clever  Though you don strike me clever

I’m not, I’m a trickster, a fox, I’m adaptable. 

                                                 Until I’m not.  Not a soul knows me better than I know me, so a warning, out of the mouth of an old man, when I set my mind to something don’t stand in the way.

I don think well have a problem  I walk by  We yap  Im on my way

they yapped a couplethree times a week throughout the winter into summer

   Fack

           he went up to the door and rapped

an attractive young woman answered it

Excuse me  Arya the lady of the house he felt like a Fuller Brush salesmanJESUS

This is my house, yes. she woudnt know wha Fuller Brush was

Your grandfather sat at the edge of the street he an Id talk briefly when I passed  Is he okay

He’s gone.

his heart sunk in his chest  cleared his throat

                                                Im sorry my condolences 

Ohno  no, he’s moved.

Moved

Yes.

Why  Where

Back east. most everywhere was east of California  My aunt asked him to come live with her.

Was their friction between youexcuse me Im rude  My names Joe I live up the street

I’ve seen you walked past for years, seen you talk with Pappy. I’m Edith.

Hello Edith  Thas an oldfashion name

Isn’t it? My greatgrandmother on my grandfather’s side came west in a wagon. I got two daguerreotypes she posed for in Chicago. She was a finelooking woman, I’m said to take after her, few redheads in our family. I go by my middle name, although my default when meeting people is to my give my christened name.

If I may your middle name

Maneater . .

. . interruptingclearing his throat  I like thareally like tha  Rightup my alley

It’s Sioux, my grandmother’s side of the family.

So your Grandfather went adios as he liked to say

He did. He told me youth was wasted on the young.

He may have said tha to make himself feel better

He called my husband and I . . asexual. 

                                           He said If I had a girl with your looks I’d fuck her black and blue make her beg for me to stop, wouldn’t be able to take it no more.

He is straightforwarddidnt parse his words

No he didn’t.  But to be frank his history backs him up, my grandmother left him because he wouldn’t give her a moment’s peace. 

                     Ol’ horndog. 

I think thas Pappy Horndog  he chuckled  

                                             P H D

1320,  Thursday,  29  6. 23

1911,  Thursday

Robert Palmer  Bad Case of Loving You  (Doctor, Doctor)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq3MJoCUrYg

he was still in knickers

   she was heated Would you put that thing down? It’s dirty.

Its dead

Don’t sass me.

Its dead Im taking it home and burying it on the far side of the garage under the eaves

she stepped towards him

thinking she might try to take it from him or knock it out of his hands he turned sideways putting his body between the little bird and her

                    adamantly she picked that up  Im burying it 

I’m your mother, you’ll do as you’re told.

I will not

Why aren't you listen to me?

Ill listen to you when youre not wrong 

   that was the talk at the dinner table as his father accepted plates shuttled to him to place servings on

                                                                                                               youngest to eldest mother first  as he doled out food he said to his eldest You’re excused. Perhaps the next time your mother tells you something you'll as you're told.

he felt words turn in his mouth but swallowed them 

                                                       Thats unlikely Dad The same will go for you

he knew his head young teachers already were biting their tongues rather calling him stubborn difficult they withheld incorrigible 

             though had they they wouldnt have been far off the mark

if they made a legitimate argument he could be convinced but he wasnt taking what he was told as gospel  he was skeptical  and particularly so when he was told Because as a shortcut to continue a lesson

his principals were familiar

his reputation preceding him

thus his parents were also familiar with them

1420,  Thursday,  29  6. 23

Millie Small  My Boy Lollipop  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7lCJg3WoSc

234 of course it was  time often ran tha wayconsecutive numbers rising falling 420 multipletimes a week 

                                                                                                       234 in the afternoon on Santa Cruz winding the hills on his way home

he heldup his hand up to blot the sunlight coming through his rear window so he could see the time on the dashwanted to know it to contemporise timestamp wha he was thinkin

        whahad he been thinkin 

Gawddamn

              slipped him  forgot

Shit

     contemporising isnt supposed to be hard

  Whawas it whawas it 

                            hed remember even if it caused him a cerebral hemorrhage

it wasnt the two spiked deer that ran out of the trees in front of him they reminded him of hunting  the Bitterroot  yearlings tender meat   but anything young is tasty is better is why stumblingbumbling teensex was far better than when he was experiencedRIGHTEOUSLY so  It was Insane

   hed sleep on it

a little help from his friends

Yahoo  234s just a signifier times fluid yaougtha be pliable 

                                                                 Your grandmother crossed your mind yawere watching Lawrence Welk with her as a boy Ahwonderful ahwonderful Now ah one anah two anah three 123 234  345yah    Ya got it

No thas not it  There was something else

I told you he wasnt gonna be satisfied with a pat answer 

A reasonable one

   Yakiddin me  when is he reasonable  He doesnt takes anything lying downkeeps turning the gawddamn ball in his hands like a babe 

                     Every thing is new to him

Awright awright  shaddup 

                                Yawanna tell him 

Youve got seniority

You butted in 

                Have at it all yours 

Whaif he blames me 

He wont 

          He thinks this shit up Its on him  Hell take it cuz he knows hes not the only one who contemporiseswho dates an timestamps He challenges you weve got him by the balls beat him senseless with his own thoughtwords 

   There is tha 

Thas game

              He wont challenge you 

Aheer  Ahmm excuse me

   Whasup

It wasnt Lawrence Welk your grandmother

No I thought tha unlikely although true 

                                            Im a little miffed someone or several were being dishon . .

. . No Not lying  They were onguard for your sensibilities

My sensibilities

Yessir

Theyre not sensitive Im thickskinned 

                                            Wha 

The fact tha you were thinkin three an have had time alignbe 234 like being halfway down a ski jump You rode it out But despite your enthusiasm your imagined pulledupheldoff it let you go off on your own make the leap alone 

Invigorated you lost grip of your thought 

   An I thought

You were thinking of testicular prostheses  Except . . .  heshe shehe nodded their head tentatively 

Except

Except it wasntbout filling an empty scrotum or making a pair . . .  they nodded again

Christ Woudya just say

It crossed your mind to have three testicles

AH

   AH

Awa Mother Earth goddess  She has three breasts 

                                                           Kind of dreamy 

Dreamy

          How

Your hands an mouth busy at the exact same time 

                                                       Though thas not necessarily in regards to three testicles Ya just get to oneup any guy any woman may have come across Scrawl tha an a telephone number in a Womens bathroom

Gold

Jesus

Thinskinned

   Nah Nah Im familiar with you   I hadnt thought tha

Compare tha with this

                            Cerberus 

Oh  Okay   Nicely done

A third testicle easier done less complicated than three heads

                                                                  Yasee the sense

Thaya can is all tha matters 

Thankya I appreciate your help

reiterating 234,  2sday,  27  6. 23

1159,  Thursday,  29  6. 23

Joe Cocker  A Little Help from My Friends  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXV4WyQMHFM 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6958971/

it was easier to keep a good manwoman down than they thought 

                                                                         turn off their electricity 

OFF yesterday morning at 0953hrs

called the Electric Company and via its call-in tree WHERE ARE THE HUMAN BEINGS heshe was informed there was a power outage “in your vicinity” and resources were investigating

if someone referred to himher as a resource shehed remind whoever the knuckleheadasskisser was Call me tha again an Ill hand you your ass Ive got a name

when heshe was in college class test grades paper grades were posted by ones Social Security number

shehe refused to be or acknowledge the number posted on kiosks just outside the particular classrooms lecture halls and went inside to meet the professor or contacted their office to make an appointment to speak with them

as big a campus it was hisher name got around an professors from midfreshman year forth refused to grant herhim an appointment if their attempt followed on the heels of grades posted

shehe went up the foodchain reminding each lummox tossed in their way trying to inhibit them from reaching the top dog who they eventually did that they were the employer  educators were their employees

the next year his military deferral was denied he ended up in prison for refusing to go to Nam which he believed was illegal although  an American corporate bonanza  spectacular wealth realised on the oilthe blood of nearly 54,000 servicemenwomen 

                    she ended up dropping out of school  was attractive  married a corporate exec  married up  had children whos entitlement embarrassed her but was inclinedstoked by her husband

she overlooked his infidelities an did awright

they went for a long walk with three books like watching television changing channels  

when they returnedtheir dogs hurting it was Four oclock by the windup clock power was restored

the voice estimated Fourfifteen  sharp cookie 

                                                   although they had no idea when it was actually restored 

         

0853,  Thursday,  29  6. 23

Jim Croce  I’ve Got a Name  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cadvn16N188 

https://www.militaryfactory.com/vietnam/casualties.php

afternoon delight

he put down the pipehad hit a healthy toke

                                                  exhaling s l o w l y he watched the smoke play swingdance with motes near the ceiling in the late orangeafternoon sunlight that streamed through the window

MSNBC politics playedaired on his computer  

                                                referred to an article written by Anne Amplebum ANNIE he cried 

paused 

         WHO

wrong NO   Amplebum  no 

                                  he turned to himself Whacha thinkin

no offence to Anniehe was in a relationship an his girl put most girls to shame so Annie shoudntcoudnt take exception to him not finding her attractivealluring

                                          a lure thas for fish 

whawas he thinking 

his high settled in his brain like a nettle of lightning boltssynapses firing like .270 roundsflat powerful sighted at 200 metres

         howled down from the mountain 

Applebaum

   thawas more like ithowever   Amplebum titillated him 

                                                               his girl had tha goin for her

he sucked in some air

wondered wha she was up to

                                  called

   Hey baby, whas up?

You are  Yareup in my head 

                                he explained whawas governing his senses 

she laughed heartily 

                      he could imagine her dimples deepenthe brightness in her eyes  she didnt cover her mouth

when her laughter stopped 

                               Listen.

the way she said it his breath caught highup in his chest  Yes

her breath picked up slick   thicker

Whadaya doin

she breathedit caught in her throat she cleared it   breathed deeper

   Whayadoin

Baby.  Guess. 

                    Am I still up in your head?   

Or elsewhere?

You hands on

her breath quickened

Are you

quickening

Damn  Holdup lemmecatchup

Hurry she purred

1548,  Sunday,  25  6. 23

1131,  2sday,  27  6. 23

Suzanne Santo of Honeyhoney  Thin Line  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoumK7aIIHA

  

  grasshopper

wasnt playingreviving Kung Fu in his head he walkedup on one   it held its ground 

Really 

A patienceor foolish grasshopper

                                 Kwai Chang Caine referred to as Caine throughout the series played by David Carradine situated in the Wild Wild West Carradine ought to have paid attention to his characters Master Poe who taught Patience grasshopper

                       had he he woud have pickedup some pointerslife lessons fiction is fashioned from life 

might have saved Carradine from his laterlife reallife Bangkok Thailand autoerotic asphyxiation playing the Gasper  playing Solitaire 

he hadnt caught a grasshopper since he was a boy

saw himher on the sidewalk ahead  

didnt look like shehe was going to budge

he closed to within seven metres

little critter threw down a gauntlet 

                                        Youre on feistypants 

entered stealthmode 

                      slipped the canvasbag sling quietly set it on the grass to his left

bugger shuddered 

                    then turned their back to him 

   didnt care for cocksure insects             

crouching painstakingly  he closed

hurt his knees 

turned that off

               the gauntlet flickering mirrorballshiny consumed him    was blinded by the light

bugger held their ground

he went to a kneeleaned on a hand

bug held

cupped his hand 

                 lunged 

it launched

into his palmTRAPPEDslidscooped his other hand underclasped them togetherrolled onto his hipGOTCHA

                                                                                                              was pleased

was definitely writing homebout this

he cracked his fingers just enough to let some light enter

peering in between his top hands thumb and indexfinger

stoic little bastard peered back 

                                   Yahyah yaknow Yaknow  Im not doin you no harm

he openedtook his hand away

had conquered his quarry

   it sat complacent in his palm like at church devoutly listening to sermon

he shook his hand eversoslightly                                        

   evidently a really good fucking sermon

shook it a bit more aggressively

it shimmiedcould feel the minute spines on its legs on his palmpluck at his palmar flexion creases his since he was 12weeks in the womb that allowed his skin to fold without bunchingup making it difficult to grabhold onto things then

coudswear he hear it hawk 

                             the grasshopper spat chewintobaccy an leapt a hell of a leap cleared the concrete touched down on the grasslaunched again left him in its dust 

he stoodup 

his knees bellyachedShaddup

bouncing a couple of times on his toes looseningup his legs relieving their tension a middlingdiscomfort he strolled back to his canvasbag 

                  reached for itStop

wiped the tobaccy from his palm in the grass

   no matter he was still writin homebout catchin a grasshopper

155preferred,  day-between-2-Ts,  21  6. 23

2208,  Monday,  26  6. 23

Murray Head  One Night in Bangkok  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgc_LRjlbTU

Manfred Mann’s Earth Band  Blinded by the Light  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZW9meY2IPw

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2t3i97

Sneezecomin brace yourself   

Thanks

       he set his coffee down on the kitchen counter squatbentplaced his hands on his kneeswent off like a rocket 

Whew  Appreciate ya having my back 

   You really have to assume that position Ya look ridiculous

I do I really do 

               My daughter blew out a discthe sponges between vertebrae with a sneeze

She injured her back prior 

She did she did butya might recall Ive had a bad back since a kidbeen laidup weeks at a time more than once Aint chancing it

Okay  Thas legit

he shook his head I don need your okay

A couple days ago you welcomed my confirmation

You werent confirming you were questioning me I know you know the difference don try to slip the noose

It seems extreme You know wha we look like 

No

    When I sneeze my eyes shut Yadidnt notice the momentary blackout

Ohmy yare right It did go black

For you me an everyone else

 

Do you know wha your sneeze sounds like

Sounds like  No

                 I go off I don listen

Sounds like yare saying Blessyou its preceded by a kind of a grrowl or an aww  

   Bless you

Yah

Thas reasonable

Reasonable 

             How do you mean

Aint a body around to bless me an I woudnt say Gesundheit a syllable too many

Danke

Quick on your feet Ill guess Thanks

Yah Danke schon oder od sehr, vielmals! Thank you very, very much!

Thawas a mouthful 

                     However I do like to sneeze  Endorphins    Like an orgasm 

I woudnt know 

You know youve beenround

I meant experiencing an orgasm myself

Hmm Didnt know   None of you

None

Thas something I havent given it any thought  

                                                      Though now tha I have I cant help but wonder wha I might feel if you or any of the gang did 

   Yare cute  If I coud pinch your cheek I woud

144preferred,  day-between-2-Ts,  21  6. 23

1242,  Monday,  25  6. 23

We Go Together  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-D8CQPpzqU

he prattlesplays games 

                            say   blasphemy 

blaspheme blasphemer blastedfemur

blasphem blasfem  faggot Comnow  cigarette   lets not be coarse 

  blasphormer

blastphurnace

blastphlegm

beastphlegm

phlegmtheme

dig the scene 

obscene 

extreme 

fresh French crème  

                 laughed  always good to stretch his legscheck the elasticity of his brain

friend asked  What do you write? 

Wha I left 

             Confused     You said right I said left

Of course you meant write                                     

I write Fiction Fact Fantasy 

Fantasy Fiction Fact

                       Your turnrun with it 

My turn?

   Nevermind mine Either shit or get off the pot I lack patience a tad intransigent Trans gent  Trans send 

Fact Fantasy Fiction 

                         Arent you playing You arent playing    Playing you arent

I call it my realm   Mosaic

                            Pattern Picture Passion produced by arranging small coloured pieces together

Your turn please

   Yes ah uh . passion picture pattern . . an . picture pattern passion  ?

Thawas fine yes correct   Funhuh

Harder than it looks on paper. It is . . . different.

   Its structure is freeing opens my senses opensmysenses extinguishes opaqueparentheses paralyzingparentheses theses

        Theseus slayed the Minotaur his crimethe bullheaded offspring his mother Cretes Queen Pasiphae coupledwas fucked by a snow-white bullThink Trojan horse  I think thaI think Asterion thawas the Minotaurs name Asterion shoudnt have been conceived  Trojan   The bull was a gift from the god Poseidon to Minos King of Crete meant to be sacrificed to Poseidon 

                        Minos tried to slip one past Poseidon Enraged Poseidon had Aphrodite curse Pasiphaecause her to fall in love with the bull 

                            Some kind of pornhuh 

We got nothing on the ancient Greeks

I must say one brilliant morning standing at the ruins of Akrotiri on Santorini I was able to make out on the horizon the smokyform of Crete

Mosaic.

   Yes

1014,  Sunday,  25  6. 23

1125,  Monday,  26  6. 23

Suzanne Santo (feat. Gary Clark, Jr.)  Fall for That  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6rW0ScCMXI