returning to the car with a sixpak a forty pound box of cat litter Well tha was worth it despite being an additional stop

turning on his hip in the drivers seat eyeing the cat litter as he set it down on the backseat

                                                                                                That’s huge, I didn’t know they made em that big.                  

Tend to be hard to come by but theyre just four bucks more than a twenty pound box  Thank you I appreciate you driving

That’s cool, ya baited me with beer.

I did Yare getting clever friend

Perhaps. 

            Soo yasaid it was worth it. 

sitting down in the passengers seatshutting the door Yah

                                                             Yare familiar with my luck ya really oughta come inside the market next time with me stop sitting on your ass waitingplaying with your smartphone

it was still in his hands  he laid it in his lap You don’t think I might screw up your juju.

Impossible Ive had it since I was a little boy Your presence woud make no matter

Maybe next time.

Ill remind ya

You don’t think I’ll remember? 

No

Jesus.

Nah Jesus

            Im up against your affliction your addiction Cat needs his fix I dig 

I’m not that bad . . 

. . Yare tha bad

                 Whe we go out go hiking go for coffee do I ever carry my phone 

Your choice . .

. . Your choice 

               Like yare going to miss something twentyfourseven world babe Youll catch it Shit will still have its stink on it

Christ. Really?

Really

Enough.

         You said that was worth it.

Awyah 

You gonna say? 

Yagonna put on your seatbelt

You telling me I need to?

If I have your undivided attention  Yah Yaneed to

he set his cell in the console between thembuckled up 

                                                         To Infinite and Beyond.

Yah

     She had big round titsfirst thing I noticed I was in the aisle behind her Then turning she had a big round ass an she set off the whole sundae with her big brown Hispanic eyes

Oh man.

Her purchase concluded she stepped out with her bag passed right in front of me an as she did the bag split her tequila tumbled  I was able to set the litter down an catch the bottle midair An bent forward as the other items toppled out she gave me an expansive gander at her cleavage An beyond 

                                                               She blushed beautifully

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1726,  Saturday

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   dictum occurred to him

                            word made him laughlaughed because because his very next thought was alwaysalways Damn near rectum

talking aloud to himself often cause friction 

Excuse me? 

he looked across the café table at him 

                                         No I wasnt talkin to you

But you said something. 

Yes yes I did 

               Eavesdropping

No. You said something.

I did 

     Although I didnt preface it with your name did I

No. 

Then obviously wasnt meant for you besides  excuse me  ya waltzed out of our conversation when your cellphone buzzedya had to take it  It didnt ring buzzed  Text  Ya had to take a text 

                                                                               Addict 

I was expecting someone.

Didnt share tha with me

No. I suppose I didn’t.

Suppose

   I didn’t.

Thawoud have been courteous

I wasn’t thinking.

Ouchy he was being ridiculous 

                               Not tha I havent called you out before  Leading an entitled life man  

he didnt like being dressed down 

                                 What do you want me to say?

Nothing Not a damn thingnothing to be said ya keep to your script Ill keep to mine  Mines better written more considerate

Yet you talk to yourself.

Yah Talkin to an interested party

no idea when I scribbled this coincided with Miltons Areopagitica opposing licensing and censorship,  2023

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scapegoat 

           

   he wondered as he began leafing through the dictionary 

                                                             not that he really had tohad a creeping suspicion 

an as familiar as he was with it he named his Gary after Gary the Snail SpongeBob SquarePants pet 

YUP  as he gathered  on a brilliantlylit marquee LEVITICUS  Tha hobo yet again 

Old Testament 

mussed with Moses fingerprints Thirteenth Century BCE Before Common Era  not Before Christian Era  not BC AD ABRACADABRA hocus-pocus mumbo jumbo open sesame gibberish gobbledygook double talk jabberwocky   Take a breathtake a breath  Breathebreathe  breathe   Better   Yes  yes thank you   

cat with the Burning bush 

                           Exodus  3:13 – 14  I AM WHO I AM   Gawd 

                                                                            isnt everyone who they are

and to be who one is is to be true to themselves 

I’ve been thinking . . . I think you ought to take one for the team.

he might count his lucky starshis fortunate that she was able to pull back on her angerlimit him to a Fuck you!  she stoodturned went to the door

No wait stop, don’t go, wait, stop, I don’t think you ought to be alone right now.

You’re right she said over her shoulder as she opened the door  You don’t think.

he said something

she didnt hearshe had closed the doordidnt slam it 

it was so much horseshit if it was said on Sunday after Super Bowl after the children were down said face to face this drauma could have been alleviated

instead 

        she was fingeredmade the scapegoat Leviticus pair of kid goats one released into the wilderness taking with it all sins and impurities the other sacrificed to their thinking for their convenience   a convenience covering a convenience 

   she asked what he thought 

                                Be true to yourself baby  Ive got your back

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