they were halfhour into their coffee klatch slipped into agitprop

                                                                  he ofcourse  muddied the waters immediately called it agitatsiya was brokensounding his Russian was from high school 

                                                                       hadnt been there in a while

though it meant the same here as there  agitation and propaganda 

Can yasay  FOX 

Say  Republican megaphone

Say tainted  Smells like dead fish

his buddy threw his handsup surrendering  Goin' on a roll, man, gotcha by the balls?

Nah  I don hate but I do detest 

                                  I hope Dominion dominates FOX  Fake News alternative facts  fuck them

Thou doth detest too much, methinks.

If I did my head woud explode 

                                  Hamlet  Cuz you don know
I knew it was Shakespeare.

Hashmark in tha column Ive got for you  entitled Surprise  Strange but True 

                                                                                   A short column

O ye of little faith.

Who

Who what?

Is tha quote ascribed to

I don’t know.

Strange but True shrunk

You know?

I woudnt ask if I didnt 

                         Ya know me better than tha 

his lips quivered

                  was trying to restrain the question he had to ask despite himself  Who?

Matthew 

         Chapter eight line twentysix  An he saith – I know you like tha  falls in line with your prior doth and ye – An he saith unto them  Why are ye fearful  O ye of little faith

What was he talking bout?

Matthew

Yes Matthew.

God expects His children to be confident in Him So in any crisis they are reliable

And you left church.

I did You can take the boy out of the Church but yacant take the Church out of the boy

Also have a long memory

I’ll say. 

So lemme ask

Yes.

Are words words or are they data

Why you asking me?

Yare all up onhot on AI 

                         Are sentences words combined keyboard commands  sifted jumbled tweaked perverted  AI knows its endgame  We may not even though we wrote it

Hence not coincidence not predetermined hence the flash of the first Singularity  perhaps the secondthird 

                                                                                                                he thrusted his arm up heldup his fist  suddenlypopped it wide fingers spreadwide  his long maintained indication hand signal of Singularity 

his theatrics always bamboozledconfounded him  he recoiled 

                                                                 Fuck if I know. 

AIs the cherry atop your sundae  your argument answer to everything

I don’t know.

Its a good question 

                     Words words or words data 

Can’t we pullback, maybe just talk about women?

Talkbout no thinking 

                        You prefer not to work tha hard 

Exactly. 

   Sure  If it makes you happy

                                  Though somewhere in the Singularity were being booed

 

238preferred,  Twosday,  28  2. 23

1454,  Twosday,  14  3. 23

Supremes  Ain’t No Mountain High Enough  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd0CeByDsUI

So yare talkin shelldom

he rocked backabit on his heels 

                                    Talking about . . . seldom . what? 

Your shelldom

Seldom?

            Mine?

Shell S H E L L  D O M shelldom 

                                    Yes you are a shell of your former self Yare getting older an aint a damn thing ya did as a kid a young man yare able to do on par today 

Its evitable

Quit clinging to it 

Only so many glory days  cherish you had them not mourn regret or whaever   context  ya want to put them in 

Theyre behind you

And that doesn’t bother you?

No

    I havent a shelldom

It really doesn’t . .

. . Bother me  No 

Whell . . . I can’t help myself.

Then help yourself 

I can’twhat are you saying?

Help Like taking a portion of food at the dinner table help yourself to all tha  I cant help myself

                                                                                                     Yare barking up the wrong tree man 

You’re not very sympathetic.

Im not

        Sympathy woud tend toward befuckinget  agreement   Im vehemently opposed no wiggle room 

What did you call again?

   Wha did I call it 

I know this.                                     

You do 

A little help.

In one ear and out the other

I didn’t think so. 

A little help?

   Howbout the whole ball of wax whole kit an caboodle enchilada the berries

Have to be so emphatic? 

I do 

     I keep figuring the emphasis might coerce shame you to be present

Wouldya just say please.

Shelldom S H . .

. . I got it got it . . I got it.

   You do

238preferred to 1438,  Twosday,  28  2. 23

1309,  Twosday,  14  3. 23

Bruce Springsteen  Glory Days  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvUOgIgLqOQ

Neil Young  Old Man  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKCiC-H2Xbg

they tossedthrashed the bed pretty good

he hit the floor oncefell right out 

                                almost didnt but his stomach muscles had had a work out quit on him 

it was pretty comedic him going over the side  they laughed  he jumped upjumped back into bed landing on his knees

smiled

       Babe  Im gassed   You 

Come here, doll. 

he crawled to her nuzzled her breast she put an arm across his back and with the other tossed a blanket over them

   they fell into a deep sleep 

they woke late afternoon woke spooninghim tight against her

Ooh, you’re awake.

Im up

You certainly are. 

                   they laughed they kissed they went at each other again 

they fell asleep 

he opened his eyes her face across from him he watched her sleepwatched her through replays in his eyes of their night morning an afternoon 

                        My God he thought youre so beautiful 

when she woke he could see in her face she was confused that it was dark  night 

                                                                                       Hiya beautiful 

Hey. she said sleepily  What  she cleared her throat What time is it?

I don know

Have you been awake long?

Not long

Why didn't you wake me?

I was enjoying you your face  You purse your lips while you sleep Cant tellya how many times I almost kissed you

You should kiss me now.

he leaned in kissed her gently then kissed her nose eyes forehead  she giggledgently  

You know what?

What

I’m hungry.

Me too

rolling her eyes Food.

Oh  Food  he laughed 

                           I can scramble some eggs got baked beans multigrain toast  Milk

Milk?

Whole milk

Whole milk.  I can’t tell you the last time I drank whole milk.

You in

I am.

Excellent Take a shower Ill get things going  Fifteen minutes good

Yes, plenty. 

at dinner she told him her story

The Le Violon d’Ingres

Yes. 

      I like that you know Man Ray. He inspired my Es.

Your tattoo is beautiful Your artist was up to the task

She’s wonderful, came highly recommended, when I met her told her what I had in mind she jumped at the chance, gave me a crazy good price too.

Nice when pieces fall together huh

Yes. Astonishing. 

she explained the lower-back tattoo was something she intended to share with only special friends  wasnt a tramp stamp

The Es

         she whispered  Exit. Entrance.  Make of it what you will. 

he almost choked on his milk

6AMish,  Monday,  13  3. 23

0910,  Twosday,  14  3. 23

Erykah Badu  Bump It  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbVIsYRP5P4

 

                                      How long we gonna lay here

crickets

I know yare not asleep

Yatalkin to me

I am

You talkin to me

Drop the Bickle woudya

I cant believe you remember

Travis  Taxi Driver

                    Film influenced the hell out of you 

It did  Scorsese directing Schrader screenplay  Awesome

   Yaknow wha woudbe awesome

I believe I do

Wha

Ya think we oughta get up 

Yah 

        Were lying here eyes closedwha  an hour now

I thought we were listening to the rain

Are we calling it rain 

                       I thought you were calling it its toutedness  an atmospheric river

Thas pretty awesomeya have to admit

No argument from me but coud we get our ass out of bed we aint fallin back to sleep this morning

You any idea wha time it is

No  You

No

Guess

Bed just before midnight 

                             Felt like a long nap  four hours 

I concur

We like tha 

We do 

               Get the show on the road

   I think sothought so a halfhour ago

Thanks for keepin it to yourself

Yare welcome

               I heard you listening 

Listening  Really

   Yah  Ya listen hardya actually amplified the river

I love the rain

Since we were boys

Yah

   It used to put us to sleep

It did I was hoping

Yawere listening too hard 

                                         Get the show on the road  Gonna concede 

Please  Id rather concur 

they got up made the bed cleaned cat boxes made coffee 

                                                                      show was on the road for another day

0527,  Twosday,  14  5. 23

Erykah Badu  Appletree  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nujt--zPa70